https://hg.python.org/peps/rev/d31fe28e2766 changeset: 5630:d31fe28e2766 parent: 5627:6c6947dbd13f user: Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> date: Sun Nov 30 12:27:06 2014 -0500 summary: Add a read-only mirror and remove the techincal arguments files: pep-0481.txt | 18 +++--------------- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/pep-0481.txt b/pep-0481.txt --- a/pep-0481.txt +++ b/pep-0481.txt @@ -110,21 +110,6 @@ first class citizen. In addition to that, for Windows users who are not well aquanted with the Windows command line, there are GUI options as well. -On a techincal level git and Mercurial are fairly similar, however the git -branching model is signifcantly better than Mercurial "Named Branches" for -non-comitter contributors. Mercurial does have a "Bookmarks" extension, however -this isn't quite as good as git's branching model. All bookmarks live in the -same namespace so it requires individual users to ensure that they namespace -the branchnames themselves lest the risk collision. It also is an extension -which requires new users to first discover they need an extension at all, and -then figure out what they need to do in order to enable that extension. Since, -in contrast to the branching feature in git, this feature is a Mercurial -extension, in general, its support outside the Mercurial core is less -extensive. Finally, users who are not used to Mercurial are unlikely to -discover bookmarks on their own, instead they will likely attempt to use -Mercurial's "Named Branches" which, given the fact they live "forever", are not -often what a project wants their contributors to use. - Why Github? ----------- @@ -240,6 +225,9 @@ each push. * Migrate any issues for these projects to their respective bug tracker on Github. +* Use hg-git to provide a read-only mirror on hg.python.org which will enable + read-only uses of the hg.python.org instances of the specified repositories + to remain the same. This will restore these repositories to similar functionality as they currently have. In addition to this the migration will also include enabling testing for -- Repository URL: https://hg.python.org/peps