[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Jul 3 20:16:08 CEST 2010


On 7/3/2010 12:36 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:

I would say that using the SVN mirror is a fine way to experiment with using hg against the Python sources to develop and test patches. Here is the setup I have used for work against trunk (I have a parallel pair of repositories for the release2.6-maint branch):

- - Create a "pristine" clone of the trunk (one where I never commit any changes): $ cd $pythonrepo $ 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 Before working on a patch, I refresh the upstream repository: $ cd $pythonrepo/pytrunk-upstream&& hg pull and pull any changes into the local working repository: $ cd $pythonrepo/pytrunk-work $ hg pull -u $ make

This is perhaps a naive question, but hat do you gain with the intermediate mirror clone of upstream? (Other than filling more of your disk?)

-- Terry Jan Reedy



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