# HG changeset patch
# User Marcin Kuzminski <marcin@python-works.com>
# Date 1371062285 -7200
# Node ID b53cef6faf220531d4b6f6fe8cc5f5c61152f059
# Parent  c1a1f05e680f061753d7f1cc0560efd171dee842
updated contributing docs

diff -r c1a1f05e680f -r b53cef6faf22 docs/contributing.rst
--- a/docs/contributing.rst	Wed Jun 12 20:02:01 2013 +0200
+++ b/docs/contributing.rst	Wed Jun 12 20:38:05 2013 +0200
@@ -10,13 +10,15 @@
 Could I request that you make your source contributions by first forking the
 RhodeCode repository on bitbucket_
 https://bitbucket.org/marcinkuzminski/rhodecode and then make your changes to
-your forked repository. Please post all fixes into **BETA** branch since your
-fix might be already fixed there and i try to merge all fixes from beta into
-stable, and not the other way. Finally, when you are finished making a change,
+your forked repository. Please post all fixes into **dev** bookmark since your
+change might be already fixed there and i try to merge all fixes from dev into
+stable, and not the other way. Finally, when you are finished with your changes,
 please send me a pull request.
 
 To run RhodeCode in a development version you always need to install the latest
-required libs from `requires.txt` file.
+required libs. Simply clone rhodecode and switch to beta branch::
+
+    hg clone -u dev https://secure.rhodecode.org/rhodecode
 
 after downloading/pulling RhodeCode make sure you run::
 
@@ -25,10 +27,23 @@
 command to install/verify all required packages, and prepare development
 enviroment.
 
+There are two files in the directory production.ini and developement.ini copy
+the `development.ini` file as rc.ini (which is excluded from version controll)
+and put all your changes like db connection or server port in there.
 
 After finishing your changes make sure all tests passes ok. You can run
 the testsuite running ``nosetest`` from the project root, or if you use tox
-run tox for python2.5-2.7 with multiple database test.
+run tox for python2.5-2.7 with multiple database test. When using `nosetests`
+test.ini file is used and by default it uses sqlite for tests, edit this file
+to change your testing enviroment.
+
+
+There's a special set of tests for push/pull operations, you can runn them using::
+
+    paster serve test.ini --pid-file=test.pid --daemon
+    RC_WHOOSH_TEST_DISABLE=1 RC_NO_TMP_PATH=1 nosetests -x rhodecode/tests/other/test_vcs_operations.py
+    kill -9 $(cat test.pid)
+
 
 | Thank you for any contributions!
 |  Marcin