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.
# Read the output of a "svn log --xml" command on stdin, parse it and
# print a subset of attributes common to all svn versions tested by
# hg.
from __future__ import absolute_import
import sys
import xml.dom.minidom
def xmltext(e):
return ''.join(c.data for c
in e.childNodes
if c.nodeType == c.TEXT_NODE)
def parseentry(entry):
e = {}
e['revision'] = entry.getAttribute('revision')
e['author'] = xmltext(entry.getElementsByTagName('author')[0])
e['msg'] = xmltext(entry.getElementsByTagName('msg')[0])
e['paths'] = []
paths = entry.getElementsByTagName('paths')
if paths:
paths = paths[0]
for p in paths.getElementsByTagName('path'):
action = p.getAttribute('action')
path = xmltext(p)
frompath = p.getAttribute('copyfrom-path')
fromrev = p.getAttribute('copyfrom-rev')
e['paths'].append((path, action, frompath, fromrev))
return e
def parselog(data):
entries = []
doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(data)
for e in doc.getElementsByTagName('logentry'):
entries.append(parseentry(e))
return entries
def printentries(entries):
fp = sys.stdout
for e in entries:
for k in ('revision', 'author', 'msg'):
fp.write(('%s: %s\n' % (k, e[k])).encode('utf-8'))
for path, action, fpath, frev in sorted(e['paths']):
frominfo = ''
if frev:
frominfo = ' (from %s@%s)' % (fpath, frev)
p = ' %s %s%s\n' % (action, path, frominfo)
fp.write(p.encode('utf-8'))
if __name__ == '__main__':
data = sys.stdin.read()
entries = parselog(data)
printentries(entries)