[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:09:48 -0400
Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > The two sets of repositories use different conversion tools and rules.
> > They have nothing in common (different changeset IDs, different
> > metadata, different branch/clone layout).
> 
> I'd love to see a more detailed description of this, including why
> someone new to Mercurial would choose one over the other.
> 
> This information really belongs in www.python.org/dev/ rather than
> only in the mailing list.

I'm not sure. Contributors don't really have to know about the
specifics of the temporary repositories used for conversion tests.
www.python.org/dev/ already points to the stable, up-to-date mirrors; I
don't think it's worth complicating that page.

Regards

Antoine.