[Update 16\/02\/2011 – This no longer works now that Twitter has disabled basic_auth. Oh well….]
\n[Update 21\/07\/2009 – Twilight is now called Daylight.]<\/p>\n
If you follow what I do on this blog and on my podcast<\/a> with Philippe Guitard<\/a>, you know that I like Mercurial ( \nIn particular, I really like Murky<\/a> as a GUI front-end to Mercurial. In fact, I’m working on the French localization<\/a> with Olivier Kaluzny<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nI want to create a tweet from @ichibiapp<\/a> or @daylightapp<\/a> for every commit. I do this with other apps and subversion, and find it pretty handy to catch new commits to production. Plus, if you follow these products on Twitter, you too can get on the inside track of the software releases.<\/p>\n \nIf you want to do the same for your Mercurial repositories, here’s how:<\/p>\n \n Voil\u00e0! Every time you commit to Mercurial, the first line of your commit message will be posted as a tweet to the specified twitter account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Update 16\/02\/2011 – This no longer works now that Twitter has disabled basic_auth. Oh well….] [Update 21\/07\/2009 – Twilight is now called Daylight.] If you follow what I do on this blog and on my podcast with Philippe Guitard, you know that I like Mercurial (hg), one of the newer distributed version control systems. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quickie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}hg<\/code>)<\/a>, one of the newer distributed version control systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
commit-twitter<\/code>, in your $PATH<\/code> and mark it as executable (chmod a+x commit-twitter<\/code>):\n\r\n#!\/bin\/sh\r\n# Simple script to send the first line of the commit message as a tweet\r\nif [ $# -ne 2 ]\r\nthen\r\n echo \"Usage: `basename $0` twitter-username twitter-password\"\r\n exit 1\r\nfi\r\nTWITTER_USER=$1\r\nTWITTER_PASS=$2\r\nTWEET=$(hg log -r $HG_NODE --template '{desc|firstline}')\r\ncurl -s -u \"$TWITTER_USER:$TWITTER_PASS\" -d \"status=$TWEET\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/statuses\/update.xml & > \/dev\/null\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nThe script takes two arguments, username and password, and checks that you have those two arguments. Then it extracts the tweet from the log using the HG_<\/code> environment variables set by Mercurial.
Finally, it uses curl<\/code> to generate the tweet, using silent mode (-s<\/code>), running in the background with &<\/code> (to return immediately) and sending the output to \/dev\/null<\/code>.
\n<\/font>\n<\/li>\n.hg\/hgrc<\/code> file, creating it if it does not exist:\n\r\n[hooks]\r\ncommit.tweet = commithook-twitter <twitter-username> <twitter-password>\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n