[Python-Dev] Move selected documentation repos to PSF BitBucket account?

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 11:44:59 CET 2014


On 24 November 2014 at 10:20, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another aspect that can be somewhat annoying is the terminology
> conflict between branches in the git sense and bookmarks vs named
> branches in the Mercurial sense.

This is probably the thing that hurts me most in git/hg translation.
In git, I routinely create branches, play with them, then throw them
away (either once they get integrated, or when I decide they are a bad
idea). It seems to me to be *much* harder to get that lightweight
behaviour in hg - if I create a PR for a hg project that isn't
accepted, how do I delete it from my clone? In a way that means it
won't reappear when I push/pull from my other PC, where I forgot to
*also* delete it? Does the answer to that depend on whether I used a
bookmark or a branch (and relatedly, which should I use)?

Maybe it's also more complicated than it seems on git, but cleaning up
experiments seems much easier to me on git.

Not that we're getting offtopic here at all, of course... ;-)

Paul


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