March 19, 2010
1:13 p.m.
M> Is Python-dev going to consider shifting their repo to mercurial/git M> instead of SVN? :) Yes, Dirkjan has been working on it. My initial experience with hg as a quick way to revision control anything anywhere on a small scale ("hmmm, I should track changes to /etc/hosts... cd /etc ; hg init ; hg add hosts") worked quite well, but when I tried to use it for something where I was actually working collaboratively (my lockfile module) I managed to get my code/branches/heads/whatever completely f**ked up. I gave up and just went back to Subversion. Skip