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?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 30 '11 at 08:12

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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>

answered Aug 30 '11 at 08:12

gavinb

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Is there any way to automatically get the current publish version in the target command? – sventevit Aug 30 '11 at 12:01
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Yes, see this other SO [question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2990216/read-assembly-version-number-in-post-build-event). – Sumo Aug 31 '11 at 02:20

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

Thanks to gavinb's answer and Sumo's comment. This is the way I did it for my WinForms application:

  <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
  <Target Name="AfterPublish">
    <GetAssemblyIdentity AssemblyFiles="$(OutputPath)\$(AssemblyName).exe">
      <Output TaskParameter="Assemblies" ItemName="AssemblyIdentities" />
    </GetAssemblyIdentity>
    <Exec Command="hg tag %(AssemblyIdentities.Version)" />
  </Target>

How to Auto tag Mercurial on Visual Studio Publish?

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