[Python-Dev] PEP: Collecting information about git

[Georg Brandl]

Fair enough. Still strange to read this PEP with the explicit caveat of
"The author of the PEP doesn't currently plan to write a Process PEP on
migration Python development from Mercurial to git."

Georg

On 09/15/2015 08:22 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> For one, because *I* have been a (moderate) advocate for switching to git and
> GitHub.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net
> <mailto:g.brandl at gmx.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 09/15/2015 08:02 PM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
>     > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 09:46:55AM -0700, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org <mailto:benjamin at python.org>> wrote:
>     >> This looks like good information, but why is it a PEP? If anything, the
>     >> devguide was probably be more appropriate. But even that's strange
>     >> considering we don't use git at the moment.
>     >
>     >    Exactly because the core team doesn't use git the information doesn't
>     > belong to the current revision of Developer's Guide.
> 
>     And if it doesn't propose to make the core team use git, why is it a PEP?