On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 at 14:09 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
I'm not sure that you'd see much savings. You'd only get deltas that were never merged to master excluded. Point taken though.

Is the expectation that a Git clone would be significantly larger than an Hg clone of an equivalent repo? I currently often rely on a single Hg clone containing all branches.

I'm not sure, which is why I'm asking what difference it would make if we separated out Python 2 branches into their own clone from Python 3 branches.

+1 on not supporting ESR, for the stated reason.

+1 from me as well for not supporting ESR.

-Brett

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