[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:51:58 +0200
"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> >>> I'd love to see a more detailed description of this, including why
> >>> someone new to Mercurial would choose one over the other.
> > 
> >> I think someone new to Mercurial shouldn't choose either one.
> > 
> >> Just sit back and wait for the real migration to happen.
> > 
> > I would say that using the SVN mirror is a fine way to experiment with
> > using hg against the Python sources to develop and test patches. 
> 
> I think your description already falls into the "advanced user"
> category. The new-to-mercurial committer should (IMO) use a "what if it
> still was svn" workflow, which uses hg pull/up/commit/push.

This assumes they are accustomed to SVN. I guess not all people are,
although it is certainly a common skill.

Regards

Antoine.