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

Daniel Stutzbach daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com
Sat Jul 3 23:51:58 CEST 2010


On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:

- - 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

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?

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