[Python-Dev] devguide: Basic instructions on how to generate a patch with hg for non-committers.

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 05:26, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:13:08 -0800
> Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > We could perhaps present SVN-like "work in the working copy" workflow
>> > (without local commits), and let seasoned hg users choose other
>> > workflows they like more (they don't need our help anyway).
>>
>> I would rather give people some simple workflow that has some benefit
>> over svn. Basically whatever is the easiest to comprehend and work
>> with should be what we start people with.
>
> Ok, I've updated the devguide to present a simple named branch-based
> approach. I'm not sure it is our job to *explain* hg features, so I've
> just given a couple of minimal instructions to get people on track.

Yep, what you wrote is what I was thinking. Enough so people can get
up and going and at least a taste of what hg can do for them w/o
devolving into an hg tutorial.

-Brett

>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
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