I would like to know if mercurial provides any in built BUILD tool for building/packaging the source code.
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A:
The hg archive program can create an archive of your repo's source code (minus all the Mercurial metadata and untracked files). For example, to create a tarball:
$ hg archive --prefix=myproject/ --type=tgz ~/myproject.tgz
See hg help archive for more information on usage and possible options.
mipadi
2009-12-02 14:14:27
Let me explain in brief here:Example: (Create hg repo for a single project)5 folders on root level. Each folder belongs to a separate module of that project.Now I would like to create separate folder say "Install" which will have similar structure of my project install root of production box.*********Now my build tool should copy the delta (latest)files to this Install folder and a jar file for all java source code should also be packaged and move to this 'Install' folder.
praveen
2009-12-02 14:37:16
If your `.jar` file is tracked by the repo, then you can use Mercurial's `archive` utility to bundle it up, along with the source files; otherwise, you'll have to use another tool. `hg archive` only archives tracked source code, and it archives *all* tracked files in a repo. You can use `archive`'s `--include` and `--exclude` flags to tailor this behavior a bit, though.
mipadi
2009-12-02 15:21:12