[Python-Dev] Joel Spolsky on Mercurial (original) (raw)

M. Shuaib Khan aries.shuaib at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 12:59:38 CET 2010


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 22:38, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote: >> Having gotten that far, I think this might be worth referencing in new dev >> docs. > > Will do. I finally read hginit yesterday, after having seen people > rave about it on twitter for a few weeks, and it's a very friendly > introduction.

The key insight for me was the "manage versions" vs "manage change sets" distinction between a traditional VCS and a DVCS. I kind of knew that already, but that page expressed it really well.

Hi,

Is Python-dev going to consider shifting their repo to mercurial/git instead of SVN? :)

Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------


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