Question

I am a project manager. My chosen policy rules are that where possible

• Cases should represent bits of work about 1 - 2 days long.
• developers should only work on one case at a time
• developers must use "Working on" to create a time sheet.

A developer said. "Given those rules, can I have my Kiln commit statements automatically populated with the FogBugz case number. This will reduce my typing and improve accuracy and consistency"

Is this possible?

Answer 1

This isn't currently possible without writing a Mercurial extensions specific to the task.

Commit messages live directly inside of Mercurial and can't really be modified after the fact. If they were somehow modified by Kiln, the commit message on your local machine wouldn't match that on the server...and so would effectively be different changesets altogether.

You could work around this by writing a Mercurial extension that, on commit, asks FogBugz for the current Working On case and then appends that ixBug to the commit message.