[python-committers] Blocking feature backports
Benjamin Peterson
benjamin at python.org
Thu Dec 2 02:05:53 CET 2010
2010/12/1 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:
> I would like to commit a couple of new feature patches in the next couple of
> days for #9299 (if no one else does it) and #10534 (working on that). It
> appears to be somewhat customary to follow such patches with 3.1/2.7 blocks,
> but Georg implied in another message that the process is obsolete in that no
> one is doing blind mass merges anymore, and I apparently cannot do blocks
> with TortoiseSvn. So is it alright if I make the commits and simply note in
> the commit messages that they are for a new feature and should not be merged
> backwards?
Please only use svnmerge if it helps you. I just use it to backport
things from py3k because it provides commit messages.
--
Regards,
Benjamin
More information about the python-committers
mailing list