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

[Georg Brandl]

Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
> 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.

If you follow the "strict-subset" policy (which I would strongly recommend, from
my experience) you'll end up with both branches in the trunk repo anyway.

> « 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.).

+1.

Georg

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