Training supports

Contributing

The main source for the supports is the slides.md but it doesn’t contains all the source.

The slides.md file contains several snippets that are replaced by other files at compilation time.

For example:

~~~raw-file
output/fix-a-bug-base.log
~~~

Will replace this three lines by the content of the file output/fix-a-bug- base.log which is generated when running the .t test file (see below for instruction how to do that).

~~~graphviz-file
graphs/fix-bug-1.dot
~~~

Will replace this three lines by the svg rendering of the graphviz definition in the file graphs/fix-bug-1.dot. This file is generated when running the .t test file (see below for instruction how to do that).

Environment preparation

This training supports needs pandoc to compile.

You’ll need a copy of the Mercurial source in order to generate the training supports.

You will also needs a functioning Python environment with the possibility to use pip install with your current user. In doubt, you can use a virtualenv <https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/>.

You can then run the prepare.sh script that will configure the environment for you.

Generating the supports

First, you need to run a .t test file to generate a bunch of files. You can run the test file with this command:

python /PATH/TO/MERCURIAL/tests/run-tests.py -l test-training.t

It should have generated files in at least two directories: graphs and output.

Finally, launch the compile.sh to generate the index.html output file.