[Python-Dev] Python source code on Mercurial

[Paul Moore]

On 22/03/2008, Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One point, which I assume you know but others may not  - a bazaar
> > "checkout" is not like a local branch. In a checkout, all commits go
> > straight back to the parent branch, meaning that local commits aren't
> > possible (OK, that's an oversimplification, but let's keep things
> > simple) and the workflow is much more like Subversion.
> You can commit locally on a Bazaar checkout by adding the --local option to
> commit. This feature is supposed to add the flexibility to have team
> branches, where a bunch of people can work on a branch.

Sigh. I said I know it's a simplification. IIRC, you can't manage a
mixture of local and remote commits. You have to push your local
commits before doing a remote commit.

But that's more detail than is needed at the moment. Please can we
keep things at a high level for the people who haven't experimented
with DVCS tools yet. (I know, I'm as much to blame as anyone. I'm
going to stop now).

Paul.