[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21/03/2008, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > Just to head this off, this is not a specific vote of confidence for
> >  Bazaar. The Bazaar developers were at PyCon and both Barry and Thomas
> >  were willing to put the time and effort to get the mirror up and going
> >  while the Bazaar team was nearby to answer questions. At this point
> >  this is more of an experiment to see if people like the development
> >  style of distributed VCS. If people do and someone steps forward to
> >  put the time and effort to add Mercurial support, we can then consider
> >  doing something similar to what was done for the issue tracker.
> >
> >  But for right now this is just to try out distributed VCS, nothing
> more.
>
> One thing I really like the idea of with Mercurial for my situation
> (non-committer) is the mq extension, which lets me manage my changes
> as a "stack of patches" - so I'm completely working with patches,
> which is what I have to post to the tracker, etc.
>
> Is there a similar workflow in Bazaar? I know there's the loom
> extension (although I haven't used it much yet) but I'm not sure how
> I'd use that.
>
bzr-loom is what you want.

>
>
> Basically, can some Bazaar expert offer a suggestion as to how a
> non-developer with read-only access would best use the Bazaar
> repositories to maintain a number of patches to be posted to the
> tracker?

I tend to make a repository and make a working copy for each patch in it.
The history is saved in the repository so it's efficient.

>
>
> Thanks,
> Paul.
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