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

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Benjamin Peterson
> <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 21/03/2008, Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > OK, so just lots of copies, fair enough. Presumably just use bzr diff
> > > to create patches? Much like Subversion, in practice, but with local
> > > commits of partial work.
> > Yes, bzr diff should do the trick, although if you have local commits in
> it,
> > you'll have to give the revision number manually.
>
> That's not really true. Let's say you have a trunk branch that you
> keep which is pristine. You branch off of it and create a xxx branch.
> You can diff between xxx and trunk by running  ``bzr diff xxx --old
> trunk``. You can also run this from within xxx with ``bzr diff --old
> ../trunk``.

Well, I just learned something. ;)

>
>
> -Brett
>
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