[Python-Dev] PEP: Collecting information about git

[Oleg Broytman]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 10:41:54PM +0100, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
> 
> I don't follow.  Because you're an advocate of Python switching to
> git and GitHub, we should have a git tutorial committed as a Python
> Enhancement Proposal?
> 
> I'm not attempting to stir up a conversation about git vs hg.  I
> only question the idea that a git tutorial should be a PEP, when it
> has literally nothing to do with enhancing Python.  There are

   There are PEPs that enhance development process but not Python
itself. I consider the PEP one of those.

> countless other venues through which Oleg could publish this
> information--a blog, a wiki, or even a series of postings to this
> newsgroup. I would encourage him to withdraw the PEP and publish
> through one of those.
> 
> 
> //arry/
> 
> On 09/15/2015 07:22 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?
> >
> >    Georg
> >-- 
> >--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido <http://python.org/%7Eguido>)

Oleg.
-- 
     Oleg Broytman            http://phdru.name/            phd at phdru.name
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.