Developer Info

1. General

• UpcomingReleaseNotes

• Tips for ContributingChanges and creating SuccessfulPatches

• ManagingBugs - how to work with the BTS

• CompatibilityRules - how we keep our existing users from crying

• OptionNaming - the conventions used to name command-line options

• BasicCodingStyle - how to keep mpm from being grumpy with your code

• WritingTests - how to add tests to the test suite

• TranslatingMercurial - how to translate Mercurial into your own language

• DevelopmentGuidelines - other things we try to follow when writing code

• DeveloperRepos - where to find various public repositories of Mercurial work

• NewFeatureDiscussions - A page of links to discussions about new features.

• NewIdeas - Suggestions for features/extensions that would make someone happy

• A list of Presentations and other related events.

• MacOSXTools - Installing the tool chain on Mac OS X.

• SummerOfCode

• ProductName for the rules on using the name "Mercurial"

• TimeBasedReleasePlan

1.1. Modules in C

• September 2008 posting by Matt about how to do initializers and error handling in C modules.

2. Mercurial internals

• DeveloperBasics - some basic code examples

• MercurialApi - The public API for Mercurial

• Design - Mercurial's data structures and how it uses them.

• WhatGoesWhere - the project architecture

• FileFormats - list of Mercurial's disk file formats

• WireProtocol - the push/pull changegroup protocol

• DebuggingFeatures - how to poke around in Mercurial's internals

• Theming - how to create new styles for Mercurial's web interface

• WritingExtensions - how to write Mercurial extensions

3. Old stuff

• First Mercurial UserSurvey.

• The old ToDo list and MissingFeatures

• The pre-1.0 RoadMap

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