[Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

[Paul Moore]

On 22 March 2011 12:53, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
>> I still don't understand what that's supposed to look like.  Is it supposed
>> to be a URL which refers to my local repository?
> No, to a repository published somewhere (hg.python.org, bitbucket (make
> a server-side clone of mirror/cpython), any other hosting service).
>
> You have to use one public repo per bug, as roundup will only use the
> default branch to compute the diff.  Maybe adding support for named
> branches so that you can have one repo used for many bug reports would
> be useful.

I don't know if it's supported here, but Mercurial allows branch names
in URLS. See "hg help urls" but it's basically something like

    http://hg.python.org/cpython#3.1

Paul.