Grails script to create a new Mercurial Repository for the current project, and a default .hgignore

HgInit.groovy

/*
 * Copyright 2010 Deluan Cotts ([email protected])
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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HGIGNORE_CONTENTS = """
# Eclipse project files
.classpath
.project
.settings/

# IntelliJ project files
\\.iml
\\.ipr
\\.iws
.idea/
out

# Grails files and dirs that should not be versioned
target
web-app/WEB-INF/classes
web-app/WEB-INF/tld/c.tld
web-app/WEB-INF/tld/fmt.tld
stacktrace.log
plugin.xml
devDb.*
prodDb.*

# Mac OS/X finder files
.DS_Store
"""

target(main: "Creates a new Mercurial Repository for the current project, and a default .hgignore") {
	println()
	print "Initializing Mercurial repository.... "
    proc = "hg init".execute()
	result = proc.waitFor()
	
	if (result) {
		println "ERROR: ${proc.err.text}"
		exit(-1)
	}
	println "OK"
	
	print "Creating .hgignore..."
	hgignore = new File(".hgignore")
	hgignore << HGIGNORE_CONTENTS
	println "OK"
	
	println "Finished. Add your files now (with hg add)."
}

setDefaultTarget(main)

To use this script with your projects, put it in ~/.grails/scripts/HgInit.groovy, then use it like this:

$ grails hg-init

in your project base dir.