[Python-Dev] Draft PEP 385: Migrating from svn to Mercurial

[Antoine Pitrou]

Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan <at> ochtman.nl> writes:
> 
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0385/

« [cloned branches] makes it easier to distinguish branches, at the expense of
requiring more disk space on the client. »

This is a bit misleading. Actually, by separating branches into distinct
repositories, you can save quite a bit of repository space. It really depends on
the structure of the project and your own workflow.

« This reflects that the default branch in hg is called 'default' instead of
Subversion's 'trunk', and reflects the proposed new tag format. »

If we use several distinct repositories, the default branch should instead
mirror the repository name (like what is done in the current hg mirrors:
"trunk", "py3k", etc.).

Regards

Antoine.