[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:16:08 -0400
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> 
> This is perhaps a naive question, but hat do you gain with the 
> intermediate mirror clone of upstream? (Other than filling more of your 
> disk?)

Filling less of your disk, actually, since local clones use hardlinks.
Also, pulling less data from the network might be interesting if you
have a slow connection, or pull from a very heavy or very active repo
(which CPython isn't, though).

Regards

Antoine.