[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 11/30/2014 08:45 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> I don’t make branches in Mercurial because
> i’m afraid I’m going to push a permanent branch to hg.python.org
> <http://hg.python.org> and screw
> something up.

There is no need to be afraid there, Mercurial is not going to let you 
push new head/branch unless you explicitly use `hg push --force`.

I you are really paranoid about this, you can configure your Mercurial 
to make all new commit as secret (no pushable) and explicitly make 
commit ready to push as such. This can be achieved by adding

[phases]
new-commit=secret

See `hg help phases` for details.

-- 
Pierre-Yves David