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On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver@palladion.com> wrote:
- - Create a "pristine" clone of the trunk (one where I never commit anychanges):
$ cd $python\_repo
$ hg clone http://code.python.org/hg/trunk/ pytrunk-upstream
\- - Create a local clone from that repository:
$ hg clone pytrunk-upstream pytrunk-work
$ ./configure && make
My question is basically the same as Terry Reedy's, but I'm going to phrase it a bit differently:
This is perhaps a naive question, but why do you create a second local clone instead of just creating a branch?