How to Auto tag Mercurial on Visual Studio Publish?

Question

I am using TortoiseHg + VisualHg on Visual Studio 2008. Has anyone found way to automatically create a tag (with the published version number) in Mercurial whenever I do a publish from VS?

Answer 1

You can run a custom script to perform the hg tag operation as an "AfterPublish" action. Have a look at the MSBuild documentation:

• How to: Extend the Visual Studio Build Process

You will need to modify your project to add a custom target like this:

<Project>
    ...
    <Target Name="AfterBuild">
        <Exec Command="hg tag %(TAGNAME)"/>
    </Target>
</Project>