changeset 30084:a492610a2fc1

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.
author Augie Fackler <augie@google.com>
date Sat, 08 Oct 2016 10:39:00 -0400
parents bd1f043d1ea3
children 2bde971474d2
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+Our full contribution guidelines are in our wiki, please see:
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+https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ContributingChanges
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+If you just want a checklist to follow, you can go straight to
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+https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ContributingChanges#Submission_checklist
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+If you can't run the entire testsuite for some reason (it can be
+difficult on Windows), please at least run `contrib/check-code.py` on
+any files you've modified and run `python contrib/check-commit` on any
+commits you've made (for example, `python contrib/check-commit
+273ce12ad8f1` will report some style violations on a very old commit).