Mercurial with Kiln

Last month I wanted to give a try to Mercurial as a distributed version control system. While searching for an appropriate hosting option to work with Mercurial, I came across Kiln. Kiln is a product of Fog Creek Software and as a fan of Joel Spolsky, I wanted to use it with no doubts. And what's more is that if you're a student or if you have a team of two people or less, it's completely free for you, yay! 

After you sign up with Kiln, you choose your repository's url and then you can use the web management interface of Kiln + FogBugz. 


FogBugz web UI is for projects, cases, assignments, milestones and that kind of software management crap. Kiln web UI is for managing your repositories. FogBugz also has a wiki tool which can produce sleek looking wikis that you can publish publicly or privately. 


Besides these, you can download Kiln Client as your Mercurial client. Kiln Client extends Tortoise Hg and if you download it using your Kiln account, it will come pre-configured for you, so that you wouldn't have to bother with configuring your repository and so.  To download Kiln Client, you can use the Resources link at the right top of your kilnhg page.


And if you want to integrate your IDE with Mercurial, go ahead with the following links if you use VS or Eclipse. If you don't, go ahead and use VS or Eclipse, eheie :]
Visual Studio
Eclipse