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.
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/2137
Setup:
create a little extension that has 3 side-effects:
1) ensure changelog data is not inlined
2) make revlog to use lazyparser
3) test that repo.lookup() works
1 and 2 are preconditions for the bug; 3 is the bug.
$ cat > commitwrapper.py <<EOF
> from mercurial import extensions, node, revlog
>
> def reposetup(ui, repo):
> class wraprepo(repo.__class__):
> def commit(self, *args, **kwargs):
> result = super(wraprepo, self).commit(*args, **kwargs)
> tip1 = node.short(repo.changelog.tip())
> tip2 = node.short(repo.lookup(tip1))
> assert tip1 == tip2
> ui.write('new tip: %s\n' % tip1)
> return result
> repo.__class__ = wraprepo
>
> def extsetup(ui):
> revlog._maxinline = 8 # split out 00changelog.d early
> revlog._prereadsize = 8 # use revlog.lazyparser
> EOF
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [extensions]
> commitwrapper = `pwd`/commitwrapper.py
> EOF
$ hg init repo1
$ cd repo1
$ echo a > a
$ hg commit -A -m'add a with a long commit message to make the changelog a bit bigger'
adding a
new tip: 553596fad57b
Test that new changesets are visible to repo.lookup():
$ echo a >> a
$ hg commit -m'one more commit to demonstrate the bug'
new tip: 799ae3599e0e
$ hg tip
changeset: 1:799ae3599e0e
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: one more commit to demonstrate the bug
$ cd ..