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.
$ hg init
$ cat > a <<EOF
> a
> b
> c
> EOF
$ hg ci -Am adda
adding a
$ cat > a <<EOF
> d
> e
> f
> EOF
$ hg ci -m moda
$ hg diff --reverse -r0 -r1
diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 -r 8e1805a3cf6e a
--- a/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-d
-e
-f
+a
+b
+c
$ cat >> a <<EOF
> g
> h
> EOF
$ hg diff --reverse --nodates
diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
d
e
f
-g
-h
should show removed file 'a' as being added
$ hg revert a
$ hg rm a
$ hg diff --reverse --nodates a
diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/a
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+d
+e
+f
should show added file 'b' as being removed
$ echo b >> b
$ hg add b
$ hg diff --reverse --nodates b
diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 b
--- a/b
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,1 +0,0 @@
-b