[Python-Dev] Backport troubles with mercurial

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le jeudi 30 décembre 2010 à 14:24 -0600, Benjamin Peterson a écrit :
> 2010/12/30 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
> > On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:57:11 +0100
> > Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> One thing confuses me in this thread: Do the problems come from merging
> >> across different versions (i.e. different syntax and module names), or
> >> are they regular problems that come up because people don’t want to use
> >> a merge tool?  I for one immensely like Mercurial’s merge and utterly
> >> dislike Subversion’s (certainly because I’ve learned a good merge tool
> >> and don’t have a good editor to handle files with conflict markers).
> >
> > IIUC this is not about merges, this is about transplants (or
> > cherry-picking). It would be unannoying to lose svnmerge's relative
> > convenience in that matter.
> 
> I assume you meant "annoying"?

Well, yes. I should stop twisting my negatives (whatever it means).

Antoine.