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.
#require no-msys # MSYS will translate web paths as if they were file paths
This is a test of the wire protocol over CGI-based hgweb.
initialize repository
$ hg init test
$ cd test
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Ama
adding a
$ cd ..
$ cat >hgweb.cgi <<HGWEB
> #
> # An example CGI script to use hgweb, edit as necessary
> import cgitb
> cgitb.enable()
> from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
> from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb
> from mercurial.hgweb import wsgicgi
> application = hgweb("test", "Empty test repository")
> wsgicgi.launch(application)
> HGWEB
$ chmod 755 hgweb.cgi
try hgweb request
$ . "$TESTDIR/cgienv"
$ QUERY_STRING="cmd=changegroup&roots=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"; export QUERY_STRING
$ python hgweb.cgi >page1 2>&1
$ python "$TESTDIR/md5sum.py" page1
1f424bb22ec05c3c6bc866b6e67efe43 page1
make sure headers are sent even when there is no body
$ QUERY_STRING="cmd=listkeys&namespace=nosuchnamespace" python hgweb.cgi
Status: 200 Script output follows\r (esc)
Content-Type: application/mercurial-0.1\r (esc)
Content-Length: 0\r (esc)
\r (esc)