[python-committers] Pulling from contributors repositories

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le vendredi 10 juin 2011 à 19:57 +0200, Éric Araujo a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> If someone has a cpython clone with a clean changeset that fixes a bug
>> or adds a feature, is there any reason not to pull it and push it to the
>> main repo?  It would save getting and applying the patch manually.
>
> You usually want to add a Misc/NEWS message or an ACKS entry, or make a
> cosmetic change to the patch.
> (in other words, "there's no such thing as a clean changeset" :-))

Until mercurial has better tools to bundle multiple changesets into a
single coherent group of changes, it's still preferable to do the
export/import dance.

Cheers,
Nick.

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