tests/fakemergerecord.py

contributing: add new file with a pointer to the wiki

This also includes what I consider to be the minimum set of steps
someone should be able to perform even if they can't run the
testsuite. Hopefully this will help new contributors know to at least
run the two checkers that find most things that (in my experience)
require manual cleanup.

# Extension to write out fake unsupported records into the merge state
#
#

from __future__ import absolute_import

from mercurial import (
    cmdutil,
    merge,
)

cmdtable = {}
command = cmdutil.command(cmdtable)

@command('fakemergerecord',
         [('X', 'mandatory', None, 'add a fake mandatory record'),
          ('x', 'advisory', None, 'add a fake advisory record')], '')
def fakemergerecord(ui, repo, *pats, **opts):
    with repo.wlock():
        ms = merge.mergestate.read(repo)
        records = ms._makerecords()
        if opts.get('mandatory'):
            records.append(('X', 'mandatory record'))
        if opts.get('advisory'):
            records.append(('x', 'advisory record'))
        ms._writerecords(records)