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guidelines for modifying bzr
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Guidelines for modifying bzr
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(The current version of this document is available in the file ``HACKING``
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in the source tree, or at http://bazaar-ng.org/hacking.html)
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* New functionality should have test cases. Preferably write the
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test before writing the code.
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In general, you can test at either the command-line level or the
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internal API level. Choose whichever is appropriate: if adding a
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new command, or a new command option, then call through run_bzr().
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It is not necessary to do both.
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It is not necessary to do both. Tests that test the command line level
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are appropriate for checking the UI behaves well - bug fixes and
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core improvements should be tested closer to the code that is doing the
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work. Command line level tests should be placed in 'blackbox.py'.
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* Before fixing a bug, write a test case so that it does not regress.
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function runs. Import statements have a cost, so try to make sure
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they don't run inside hot functions.
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* Please write PEP-8__ compliant code.
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One often-missed requirement is that the first line of docstrings
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should be a self-contained one-sentence summary.
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__ http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html
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* Module names should always be given fully-qualified,
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i.e. ``bzrlib.hashcache`` not just ``hashcache``.
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If you change the behaviour of an API in an incompatible way, please
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be sure to change its name as well. For instance, if I add a keyword
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parameter to branch.commit - that's fine. On the other hand, if I add
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a keyword parameter to branch.commit which is a *required* transaction
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object, I should rename the api - i.e. to 'branch.commit_transaction'.
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This will prevent users of the old api getting surprising results.
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Instead, they will get an Attribute error as the api is missing, and
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will know to update their code. If in doubt, just ask on #bzr.
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Functions, methods, classes and modules should have docstrings
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describing how they are used.
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The first line of the docstring should be a self-contained sentence.
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For the special case of Command classes, this acts as the user-visible
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documentation shown by the help command.
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The docstrings should be formatted as reStructuredText_ (like this
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document), suitable for processing using the epydoc_ tool into HTML
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.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
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.. _epydoc: http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/
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Please write PEP-8__ compliant code.
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One often-missed requirement is that the first line of docstrings
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should be a self-contained one-sentence summary.
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__ http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html
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Functions, methods or members that are in some sense "private" are given
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a leading underscore prefix. This is just a hint that code outside the
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implementation should probably not use that interface.
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We prefer class names to be concatenated capital words (``TestCase``)
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and variables, methods and functions to be lowercase words joined by
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underscores (``revision_id``, ``get_revision``).
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For the purposes of naming some names are treated as single compound
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words: "filename", "revno".
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Consider naming classes as nouns and functions/methods as verbs.
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``revision_id`` not ``rev_id`` or ``revid``
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Functions that transform one thing to another should be named ``x_to_y``
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(not ``x2y`` as occurs in some old code.)
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For example, tests for merge3 in bzrlib belong in bzrlib/tests/test_merge3.py.
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Currently, bzr selftest is used to invoke tests.
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You can provide a pattern argument to run a subset. For example,
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to run just the whitebox tests, run bzr selftest --pattern .*whitebox.*
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to run just the whitebox tests, run::
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bzr selftest -v whitebox
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Errors and exceptions
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Integer identifier for a revision on the main line of a branch.
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Revision 0 is always the null revision; others are 1-based
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indexes into the branch's revision history.
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