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- All functionality should be available in pure Python. Optional C
- implementations may be written for performance reasons, but should never
- replace the Python implementation. The C implementations should follow the
- kernel/git coding style.
- Where possible include updates to NEWS along with your improvements.
- New functionality and bug fixes should be accompanied by matching unit tests.
- Coding style
- ------------
- Where possible, please follow PEP8 with regard to coding style.
- Furthermore, triple-quotes should always be """, single quotes are ' unless
- using " would result in less escaping within the string.
- Public methods, functions and classes should all have doc strings. Please use
- Google style docstrings to document parameters and return values.
- You can generate the documentation by running "make doc".
- Running the tests
- -----------------
- To run the testsuite, you should be able to simply run "make check". This
- will run the tests using unittest.
- ::
- $ make check
- Tox configuration is also present as well as a Travis configuration file.
- String Types
- ------------
- Like Linux, Git treats filenames as arbitrary bytestrings. There is no prescribed
- encoding for these strings, and although it is fairly common to use UTF-8, any
- raw byte strings are supported.
- For this reason, the lower levels in Dulwich treat git-based filenames as
- bytestrings. It is up to the Dulwich API user to encode and decode them if
- necessary. The porcelain may accept unicode strings and convert them to
- bytestrings as necessary on the fly (using 'utf-8').
- * on-disk filenames: regular strings, or ideally, pathlib.Path instances
- * git-repository related filenames: bytes
- * object sha1 digests (20 bytes long): bytes
- * object sha1 hexdigests (40 bytes long): str (bytestrings on python2, strings
- on python3)
- Merge requests
- --------------
- Please either send pull requests to the maintainer (jelmer@jelmer.uk) or create
- new pull requests on GitHub.
- Licensing
- ---------
- All contributions should be made under the same license that Dulwich itself
- comes under: both Apache License, version 2.0 or later and GNU General Public
- License, version 2.0 or later.
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