[Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

[Ethan Furman]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:32:04 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>>>    $ hg branches
>>>    default                    68026:f12ef116dd10
>>>    3.2                        68025:cef92ee1a323
>>>    2.7                        68010:8174d00d0797
>>>    3.1                        67955:5be8b695ea86
>>>    2.6                        67287:5e26a860eded
>>>    2.5                        65464:e4ecac76e499
>>>    trunk                      62750:800f6c92c3ed
>>>    3.0                        60075:1d05144224fe
>>>    2.4                        58552:df72cac1899e
>>>    2.3                        45731:a3d9a9730743
>>>    2.2                        40444:d55ddc8c8501
>>>    2.1                        30171:06fcccf6eca8
>>>    2.0                        18214:dc0dfc9565cd
>>>
>>> The branch "default" is the current py3k branch from SVN. The branch
>>> "trunk" represents SVN trunk history until 2.7 was branched for
>>> maintenance.
>> Would it be possible to name "trunk" as "2.x" instead? Otherwise I
>> could see people getting confused and asking why trunk was closed,
>> and/or not the same as "default".
> 
> That was my first idea, but then I realized that the branch includes 1.x
> and even pre-1.0 commits, so "2.x" might actually be more
> confusing/misleading and hide the fact that the full trunk history is
> there.

Maybe prePy3k, then?  Trunk, after all, is not very descriptive.  Or is 
that name also inaccurate?

~Ethan~