How can I label my build with revision number and not the GUID (in TeamCity)?

Question

I am trying to do \"continuous integration\" with TeamCity. I would like to label my builds in a incremental way and the GUID provided by the VCS is not as usefull as a simple i

Answer 1

The best and easiest way to see rev. number in TeamCity build number is to use Build Script Interaction with TeamCity. Namely, it has a possibility to set Build Number.

So, add to your project a new very first build step Command Line with following Command Executable

for /f %%i in ('c:\tortoisehg\hg id -n') do echo ##teamcity[buildNumber '%%i']

And you will get the Mercurial revision number as a label for your every build.

Of course you can change the command in quotes to anything you wish.

I believe my answer is way more correct than the accepted one.

EDIT:

Also you can do the same via MSBuild task rather than Command Executable. Have a MSBuild project file with following code, setup TeamCity to run it as first step, and it will alter its global variable buildNumber:

Where CurrentVersion is a string containing full version (for example "1.0.56.20931").