Q:

Anyone get the MacPorts' Mercurial package to work with MercurialEclipse plugin?

I'm trying to get the Mercurial Eclipse plugin to use my MacPorts version of Mercurial (since I need to access a repo that's using the new dotencode format), but I can't get the Mercurial preference page under "Team" to save the changes. It will recognize "/opt/local/bin" as a valid directory for the "hg" executable, but when exiting the workspace the changes don't appear to be saved properly, since the next time I launch Eclipse, the old "/usr/local/bin" is back there again.
Has anyone else had problems with this? "/opt/local/bin/hg" is a symlink to "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/hg" on my system, but that file also contains a shebang ("#!") with the same path (duh!). Is that known to cause any problems on anyone else's machine?
Edit: Symlinking /usr/local/bin/hg to /opt/local/bin/hg works, but this doesn't fix the cause of the problem.
There are no errors being logged in the Eclipse Error Log view, other than "abort: requirement 'dotencode' not supported!" on startup. I.e. no errors on validating the settings or when saving the workspace.

A:

Do you have another version of hg in /usr/local/bin?  If not or if you no longer need it, you might be able to work around the issue by making a symlink:
sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/hg /usr/local/bin/hg
sudo chmod -h g+rx,o+rx /usr/local/bin/hg

