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.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Copyright 2010 Intevation GmbH
# Author(s):
# Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
"""Create a Mercurial repository in revlog format 0
changeset: 0:a1ef0b125355
tag: tip
user: user
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
files: empty
description:
empty file
"""
from __future__ import absolute_import
import os
import sys
files = [
('formatv0/.hg/00changelog.i',
'000000000000004400000000000000000000000000000000000000'
'000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
'0000a1ef0b125355d27765928be600cfe85784284ab3'),
('formatv0/.hg/00changelog.d',
'756163613935613961356635353036303562366138343738336237'
'61623536363738616436356635380a757365720a3020300a656d70'
'74790a0a656d7074792066696c65'),
('formatv0/.hg/00manifest.i',
'000000000000003000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
'000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
'0000aca95a9a5f550605b6a84783b7ab56678ad65f58'),
('formatv0/.hg/00manifest.d',
'75656d707479006238306465356431333837353835343163356630'
'35323635616431343461623966613836643164620a'),
('formatv0/.hg/data/empty.i',
'000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
'000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
'0000b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db'),
('formatv0/.hg/data/empty.d',
''),
]
def makedirs(name):
"""recursive directory creation"""
parent = os.path.dirname(name)
if parent:
makedirs(parent)
os.mkdir(name)
makedirs(os.path.join(*'formatv0/.hg/data'.split('/')))
for name, data in files:
f = open(name, 'wb')
f.write(data.decode('hex'))
f.close()
sys.exit(0)