[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 04.07.2010 00:56, schrieb 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.

I thought we were talking about Python committers specifically.

Regards,
Martin