[python-committers] [PSF-Members] Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified

[Nick Coghlan]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Feb 03, 2011, at 08:54 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>>I suspect this problem with the preferred DVCS workflow is going to
>>cut fairly heavily into the number of bug fixes applied to the
>>maintenance branches.
>
> I'd be really surprised if it *has* to be that way.  Just how painful is it in
> Mercurial to apply to newest branch first and back port?

I have no idea. I just know that the first response from veteran hg
users when asked how to implement our current workflow in Mercurial is
"don't do that" (followed by reluctant explanations of tools you might
use to do it, if you insisted on doing things "the wrong way").

Cheers,
Nick.

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