[Python-Dev] git (Was: Encouraging developers) (original) (raw)

Alexander Schremmer 2007a at usenet.alexanderweb.de
Thu Mar 8 00:03:14 CET 2007

Hi python-dev,

MvL wrote:

the on-disk repository is mighty big and it doesn't work very well on non-Linux systems (at least, not last I looked.)

Yes, mercurial or Bazaar do its job better on Windows etc. (and are written in Python :-)

Not true. The on-disk repository is now one of the more efficient ones.

After packing the repository, yes (which has to be done manually).

If this still makes git one of the more efficient dvcs systems, I don't want to see the other ones :-(

I do not know about speed issues in git, but I think that mercurial is said to be nearly as fast as git - and at least updating repos seems to work for me quickly.

Thomas A. Hein has setup a one-shot mirror of the CPython SVN with branch support here: http://hg.intevation.org/tmp/python/python/

And there is a mirror here: http://hg.alexanderweb.de/python-temp/

You can clone it by running hg clone URL, and then hg serve to see the repo in your web browser. For me that needed less than 5 minutes on a well-connected machine.

For beginners, there is a nice explanation about DVCS here: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/UnderstandingMercurial

Kind regards, Alexander

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