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.
test parents command
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
no working directory
$ hg parents
$ echo a > a
$ echo b > b
$ hg ci -Amab -d '0 0'
adding a
adding b
$ echo a >> a
$ hg ci -Ama -d '1 0'
$ echo b >> b
$ hg ci -Amb -d '2 0'
$ echo c > c
$ hg ci -Amc -d '3 0'
adding c
$ hg up -C 1
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo d > c
$ hg ci -Amc2 -d '4 0'
adding c
created new head
$ hg up -C 3
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg parents
changeset: 3:02d851b7e549
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:03 1970 +0000
summary: c
$ hg parents a
changeset: 1:d786049f033a
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
summary: a
hg parents c, single revision
$ hg parents c
changeset: 3:02d851b7e549
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:03 1970 +0000
summary: c
$ hg parents -r 3 c
abort: 'c' not found in manifest!
[255]
$ hg parents -r 2
changeset: 1:d786049f033a
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
summary: a
$ hg parents -r 2 a
changeset: 1:d786049f033a
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
summary: a
$ hg parents -r 2 ../a
abort: ../a not under root '$TESTTMP/repo' (glob)
[255]
cd dir; hg parents -r 2 ../a
$ mkdir dir
$ cd dir
$ hg parents -r 2 ../a
changeset: 1:d786049f033a
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
summary: a
$ hg parents -r 2 path:a
changeset: 1:d786049f033a
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
summary: a
$ cd ..
$ hg parents -r 2 glob:a
abort: can only specify an explicit filename
[255]
merge working dir with 2 parents, hg parents c
$ HGMERGE=true hg merge
merging c
0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg parents c
changeset: 3:02d851b7e549
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:03 1970 +0000
summary: c
changeset: 4:48cee28d4b4e
tag: tip
parent: 1:d786049f033a
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:04 1970 +0000
summary: c2
merge working dir with 1 parent, hg parents
$ hg up -C 2
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ HGMERGE=true hg merge -r 4
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg parents
changeset: 2:6cfac479f009
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
summary: b
changeset: 4:48cee28d4b4e
tag: tip
parent: 1:d786049f033a
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:04 1970 +0000
summary: c2
merge working dir with 1 parent, hg parents c
$ hg parents c
changeset: 4:48cee28d4b4e
tag: tip
parent: 1:d786049f033a
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:04 1970 +0000
summary: c2
$ cd ..