I'm using Hudson to build my project from my Mercurial repository. There are two jobs: One builds the tip, the other should build the latest release. When I tag a release and then use that tag in the field "branch", I get this error:
[workspace] $ hg update --clean --rev Release_1_2_beta1
abort: unknown revision 'Release_1_2_beta1'!
When I run the same command in my local copy, it works. It also works when I clone the What could be the reason that it breaks on Hudson?
Nothing you're doing is inherently wrong, but I have a guess based on how mercurial tags are tracked. Is it possible that you're cloning into that workspace using --rev too?
This pattern of commands doesn't work:
% hg init test
% echo this > test/file
% hg -R test commit --addremove --message 'a commit'
adding file
% hg -R test tag mytag
% hg clone --rev mytag test test-clone
% hg -R test-clone update --rev mytag
abort: unknown revision 'mytag'!
The reason that doesn't work is the clone --rev brings over all the changesets up to and including the one pointed to by the tag mytag, but it doesn't bring over the subsequent changeset that actually creates a tag named mytag.
If that's the problem (and again it's just a guess) then you either need to clone over everything or hg update to tip.
If that's not the case look in your .hgtags file and verify that tag exists in it.