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

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Sun Nov 30 04:43:39 CET 2014


> On Nov 29, 2014, at 9:01 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The PEP should also cover providing clear instructions for setting up git-remote-hg with the remaining Mercurial repos (most notably CPython), as well as documenting a supported workflow for generating patches based on the existing CPython GitHub mirror.
>> 
>> 
> 
> I can add this. I’ve never actually tried using git-remote-hg with CPython
> itself because I’ve made it segfault on other Mercurial repositories and I
> never figured out why so I just generally fight my way through using Mercurial
> on projects that themselves use Mercurial. I will absolutely test to see if
> git-remote-hg works with CPython and I can document using that to contribute to
> CPython. I’m not sure it needs to be part of the PEP or not? Feels like
> something that would be better inside the devguide itself but I’m not opposed
> to putting it both locations.


Nevermind. I’m not going to add this because git-remote-hg is busted with the latest
version of Mercurial and I don’t think it’s really needed for this PEP (though would be
good for the devguide at some point).

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