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 dedicated to test patch.diff() upgrade modes
from __future__ import absolute_import
from mercurial import (
cmdutil,
error,
patch,
scmutil,
)
cmdtable = {}
command = cmdutil.command(cmdtable)
@command('autodiff',
[('', 'git', '', 'git upgrade mode (yes/no/auto/warn/abort)')],
'[OPTION]... [FILE]...')
def autodiff(ui, repo, *pats, **opts):
diffopts = patch.difffeatureopts(ui, opts)
git = opts.get('git', 'no')
brokenfiles = set()
losedatafn = None
if git in ('yes', 'no'):
diffopts.git = git == 'yes'
diffopts.upgrade = False
elif git == 'auto':
diffopts.git = False
diffopts.upgrade = True
elif git == 'warn':
diffopts.git = False
diffopts.upgrade = True
def losedatafn(fn=None, **kwargs):
brokenfiles.add(fn)
return True
elif git == 'abort':
diffopts.git = False
diffopts.upgrade = True
def losedatafn(fn=None, **kwargs):
raise error.Abort('losing data for %s' % fn)
else:
raise error.Abort('--git must be yes, no or auto')
node1, node2 = scmutil.revpair(repo, [])
m = scmutil.match(repo[node2], pats, opts)
it = patch.diff(repo, node1, node2, match=m, opts=diffopts,
losedatafn=losedatafn)
for chunk in it:
ui.write(chunk)
for fn in sorted(brokenfiles):
ui.write(('data lost for: %s\n' % fn))