[Python-Dev] Mercurial? (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Sun Apr 5 18:48:28 CEST 2009

2009/4/5 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:

Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan ochtman.nl> writes:

I also think 100MB+ is a cheap price to pay, given you only pay it in disk space (cheap) and initial clone time (not very often, and usually still quite fast). It is a cheap price to pay if there is a significant return for it. In my experience using the hg mirror of the py3k branch, I don't remember having had to run "annotate" on the trunk to hunt for a change that I'd witnessed in py3k. Other developers may have different experiences, though.

I agree with Dirkjan.

As for the clone time, one of our proeminent developers is, IIRC, on a 40 kb/s line. Perhaps he wants to step in and say whether cloning the trunk is a painful experience for him, or not.

I suppose this is me. Cloning the hg trunk repo only takes slightly longer than an svn checkout for me, and it only needs to be done occasionally, so I have no problem with including all the history.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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