[Python-Dev] devguide: More clarifications: use the term 'working copy' and mention 'hg update'.

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/9/2011 3:29 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> Why talk about "checkout" at all? It's an SVN/CVS/RCS term, if I'm not
> mistaken (even though it may occasionally be used with hg, it's a
> synonym of "working copy" there).

I believe it harkens back to early source code control systems where one 
person literally 'checked out' a file and got a write lock on it, 
similar to checking out a particular volume from the library )except 
that others could still read, unlike with the library).

yes. good riddance (already done).

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy