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.
# node.py - basic nodeid manipulation for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
from __future__ import absolute_import
import binascii
# This ugly style has a noticeable effect in manifest parsing
hex = binascii.hexlify
bin = binascii.unhexlify
nullrev = -1
nullid = b"\0" * 20
nullhex = hex(nullid)
# pseudo identifiers for working directory
# (they are experimental, so don't add too many dependencies on them)
wdirrev = 0x7fffffff
wdirid = b"\xff" * 20
def short(node):
return hex(node[:6])