What is your workflow to coordinate Pivotal Tracker with Mercurial?

Question

I want to use Pivotal Tracker for a new project but I don't know how to use it with Mercurial to make it easy to go from one tool to the other.

What workflow do you use to link user stories/feature in Pivotal Tracker with your DVCS (Mercurial/Git)?

Thanks in advance for your advices.

Answer 1

You should use Post-Commit Hooks to link the two tools:

The Tracker API supports integration with post-commit hooks of Source Control Management (SCM) systems such as Subversion, Git, etc.
When a commit is made to the SCM, a trigger can call the Tracker API to add a story comment with the commit ID, author and message. It can also optionally change the story state.

Those hooks exists for Git, and should be written for Mercurial.