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Synchronize “For Your Server” and “On Demand” releases

I'd like the "For Your Server" (FYS) and "On Demand" (OD) release of Kiln/FogBugz to be synchronized. For the last 18 or so months, they have not been. Sometimes there are substa …
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Can Mercurial keep track of file modification dates?

Most of our install scripts for web applications are based on robocopy. We build a release version, then run a robocopy script that pushes the correct files out to a central (non- …
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Branching, backing out features before a release, then want?

Yesterday we where meant to go for a release but at the 11th hour we spotted a bug with one of the features, I wanted to back the feature out so we could still go live. But...how b …
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How do you prevent your Mercurial (or Git) branches from being locked up?

I want to throw this scenario out there and see what the most objective, vanilla-Mercurial way to fix this would be. Suppose I have the following branches in my centralized Mercur …
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Sending PHP Files To Live Server

So with kiln how are we supposed to send files from our 'stable' repository automatically, to our live server? For example, the code for our website. In our SVN based working …
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Dealing with hotfixes that don’t have to be fixed in later releases

Hi, I'm looking into the best way to handle hotfixes. We have the following repository layout: One Development repository where new features and changes are pushed into One Stab …
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Release Repo Suggestions?

I am curious if anyone has any best practice/clever suggestions on where/how to store repos for releases in Kiln? (The assumptions here is that keeping a repo for each release is a …
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Dealing with multiple release versions at the same time?

I am just looking into the possibility of converting from SVN to Mercurial at our company and I just wanted to ask how the following situation can be handled using Mercurial. It i …
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HEADS UP: The Kiln beta is starting to wind down (a few weeks left) [closed]

This is a public service announcement to let everyone that is participating in the Kiln beta know that the beta is winding down. First and foremost, we (the Kiln team) just want to …