[Python-Dev] sprints and pushes

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:25:01 -0700
Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> 
> I think the use-case has been lost.  Think sprints and multiple push 
> races.  No one is arguing that the smoke-test should be the default, but 
> seriously, are you willing to spend an hour or more re-running the 
> complete suite of tests six, eight, or 12 times because of push races in 
> a sprint?  I can see losing a good portion of your sprinting day.

Well, keep in ming hg is a *distributed* version control system. You
don't have to push your changes right now. You can keep your changesets
for yourself, make several of them (different bug fixes, for example),
and push them (after a single merge) at the end of day.

Regards

Antoine.