I'm crosposting this to all tortoises I know of - the Windows Overlay problem is relevant to all. (<a id="Git-Cheetah">git-cheetah </a><a id="Git-Cheetah">is a tortoise in disguise)</a> <div> On 19/04/2008, TK Soh <<a href="mailto:teekaysoh@gmail.com">teekaysoh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Tom Widmer <<a href="mailto:tom.widmer@googlemail.com">tom.widmer@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: > > [copy of <a href="http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev/doc/developers/tortoise-strategy.txt">http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev/doc/developers/tortoise-strategy.txt</a>] > > TK Soh wrote: > >  I'd say the document details the best strategy for TortoiseHG too, >  simply by replacing BZR with HG and Bazaar with Mercurial. > >  Except I propose this change: > >  Share the exact same (eventually C++) shell overlay extension for Bzr >  and HG, so that if you have TortoiseHG and TortoiseBZR installed, they >  actually are sharing a single COM dll, which will presumably pick up >  from the Windows registry the names of the RPC exe programs it needs to >  communicate with (one Bazaar one and one Mercurial one). There's a minor >  versioning issue here, but this can be solved by versioning the >  capabilities of the RPC server so newer versions of the shell overlay >  extension don't ask unanswerable questions of older RPC servers. > >  If that's no go, at the very least the C++ code can be shared in its >  entirety, and just built differently for HG and BZR. Stefan Küng of TSVN has proposed a solution to get around the slot limit of Overlay handlers among the Tortoise clients:   <a href="http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/TortoiseOverlays/version-1.0.1/Documentation.txt">http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/TortoiseOverlays/version-1.0.1/Documentation.txt</a></blockquote> <div> username guest password <empty> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Eventually TortoiseHg, and probably all other Tortoise clients too, will adopt this approach. </blockquote></div>I think that the TortoiseOverlay component could evolve into a separate project, were some of the features mentioned in the bzr tortoise strategy (space-efficient DLL architecture, separate tortoise-processes) would fit nicely, and benefit all tortoises. I would like to contribute to such a project, but I would rather watch a dedicated mailing list. The amount of mailing lists posts I'm trying to follow has reached my processing capabilities, so adding two more (TSVN and TBZR) with a fairly high amount of posts that are not relevant to me is not too attractive. Anybody feel like setting up such a project? Regards, Peer