How to Contribute to Mercurial
Read OriginalThis article provides a step-by-step tutorial for contributing to the Mercurial version control system. It covers joining the developer community, cloning the source code, setting up a virtual environment, building Mercurial, modifying the test suite, and submitting patches via the mailing list. The guide assumes a Linux/OS X environment with Python and basic familiarity with bash and Mercurial.
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