[Python-checkins] devguide (hg_transition): Improve wording and remove obsolete XXX
antoine.pitrou
python-checkins at python.org
Tue Mar 1 21:17:09 CET 2011
http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/b2c4d9cb4463
changeset: 360:b2c4d9cb4463
branch: hg_transition
user: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
date: Tue Mar 01 21:17:06 2011 +0100
summary:
Improve wording and remove obsolete XXX
files:
committing.rst
diff --git a/committing.rst b/committing.rst
--- a/committing.rst
+++ b/committing.rst
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
If you want to work on a feature long-term (perhaps you're implementing a
PEP), you will probably want to publish your work in a dedicated repository.
The following instructions will help you do so on `hg.python.org
-<http://hg.python.org>`_'s infrastructure without requiring a lot of upstream
+<http://hg.python.org>`_'s infrastructure without requiring a lot of upload
bandwidth.
Go to the main repository's Web page (http://hg.python.org/cpython/); there
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
$ hg pull http://hg.python.org/cpython
$ hg update
-It is recommended that you create a new named branch for your work, so as
+It is recommended that you create a new `named branch`_ for your work, so as
to easily track changes. That named branch will exist in your feature
repository, but not in the main repository::
@@ -280,10 +280,11 @@
When you push them, they will land in the public repository at
``ssh://hg@hg.python.org/features/mywork`` (or
-``http://hg.python.org/features/mywork`` for the read-only URL).
+``http://hg.python.org/features/mywork`` for the read-only URL). Other
+people can clone the public repository and work on the code too.
-When you want to synchronize your changes, you can pull from the main
-repository, either from its remote URL::
+When you want to synchronize with CPython's upstream changes, you can pull
+from the main repository, either from its remote URL::
$ hg pull http://hg.python.org/cpython
@@ -299,10 +300,7 @@
$ hg merge default
-.. XXX: since the initial "hg push" can be quite long on asymmetric
- connections, we could offer a way for people to make a remote-to-remote
- clone (like SVN allows creating branches by remote copying).
- hg currently doesn't support that.
+.. _named branch: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/NamedBranches
Uploading a patch for review
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