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 rudimentary test of the CGI files as of d74fc8dec2b4.
$ hg init test
$ cat >hgweb.cgi <<HGWEB
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> #
> # 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
$ cat >hgweb.config <<HGWEBDIRCONF
> [paths]
> test = test
> HGWEBDIRCONF
$ cat >hgwebdir.cgi <<HGWEBDIR
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> #
> # An example CGI script to export multiple hgweb repos, edit as necessary
>
> import cgitb
> cgitb.enable()
>
> from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
> from mercurial.hgweb import hgwebdir
> from mercurial.hgweb import wsgicgi
>
> application = hgwebdir("hgweb.config")
> wsgicgi.launch(application)
> HGWEBDIR
$ chmod 755 hgwebdir.cgi
$ . "$TESTDIR/cgienv"
$ python hgweb.cgi > page1
$ python hgwebdir.cgi > page2
$ PATH_INFO="/test/"
$ PATH_TRANSLATED="/var/something/test.cgi"
$ REQUEST_URI="/test/test/"
$ SCRIPT_URI="http://hg.omnifarious.org/test/test/"
$ SCRIPT_URL="/test/test/"
$ python hgwebdir.cgi > page3
$ grep -i error page1 page2 page3
[1]