can some please help with this: I want to get the user name for the last commit of a Mercurial repository. From the Mercurial documents I read that the "Mercurial Parent" and "Mercurial Tip" contains that information. But how to save that user name it into a variable so I can use it further (sending an email in case there is a compile error)?
You can use the Mercurial Tip action to retrieve the details about the most recent change set in the repository.
You can then use an output monitor to save the required details to a variable, you can then use the String Manipulation actions to manipulate the values as required.