How to configure hosted Mercurial in TeamCity 5

Question

This is probably a simple problem and I'm feeling exceptionally dumb because I can't find a any kind of documentation.

I've just installed TeamCity 5 and I want to get files from my Mercurial hosting and there is two fields I just can't figure out.

HG Command path. What should I put here? The path to a file containing what? Can I get an example of that file somewhere? The host is using Mercurial over SSH where do I define my private key?

Pull changes from? Should I put the address I'm cloning from i.e. ssh://[email protected]/project

Answer 1

I figured this out for my TeamCity 5 server last week.

HG Command path: HG Pull changes from: https://bitbucket.org/.../.../

Don't put the username@ in the URL. This is specificed as in the Username/Password fields. If you include the username in the URL it'll fail as there is a bug in the configuration tool. You'll also see a screenshot of the configuration attached to the thread:

http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/message/5254640#5254640

I'd suggest getting things working with HTTPS and then moving to SSH if possible. This breaks things down into two easier to solve configuration problems. I used the following tutorial to get SSH going on my Windows client machine.

http://www.codza.com/mercurial-with-ssh-setup-on-windows

I've not set this up on my TeamCity server yet. However I did get TeamCity to pick up my Mercurial.ini settings by putting the ini file in \Documents and Settings\TeamCity, which is the account the service runs under.