Category Archives: hg
How to setup Mercurial server on Windows/IIS
In this post I will enumerate the resources and the steps required to setup a Mercurial server under a Windows environment running on top of IIS 7. This is not as straight-forward as it should be but it is not very difficult either. You will need to download the following: Mercurial 1.5.1 http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild/downloads/mercurial-1.5.1.msi Python 2.6 [...]
NAnt task for getting Mercurial current revision
As part of my continuous integration process I like to get the current VCS revision and stick it somewhere in the build output (almost always to be displayed in some kind of “About” screen) When using Mercurial in combination with NAnt, you can do this as follows: <property name="hg.revision.hash" value="N/A" /> <target name="common.find-hginfo"> <property name="vcs.revision" [...]
