annotate tests/sitecustomize.py @ 25881:9de443515f1d stable

help: scripting help topic

There are a lot of non-human consumers of Mercurial. And the challenges
and considerations for machines consuming Mercurial is significantly
different from what humans face.

I think there are enough special considerations around how machines
consume Mercurial that a dedicated help topic is warranted. I concede
the audience for this topic is probably small compared to the general
audience. However, lots of normal Mercurial users do things like create
one-off shell scripts for common workflows that I think this is useful
enough to be in the install (as opposed to, say, a wiki page - which
most users will likely never find).

This text is by no means perfect. But you have to start somewhere. I
think I did cover the important parts, though.

import os

if os.environ.get('COVERAGE_PROCESS_START'):
    try:
        import coverage
        import random

        # uuid is better, but not available in Python 2.4.
        covpath = os.path.join(os.environ['COVERAGE_DIR'],
                               'cov.%s' % random.randrange(0, 1000000000000))
        cov = coverage.coverage(data_file=covpath, auto_data=True)
        cov._warn_no_data = False
        cov._warn_unimported_source = False
        cov.start()
    except ImportError:
        pass