[Python-ideas] Using only patches for pulling changes in hg.python.org (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 5 22:41:19 CEST 2010

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 00:30, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote: [SNIP]

Aside 1: Isn't it interesting that the more we actually think about moving to Mercurial, the more we find that the existing Subversion model of working is actually a very workable model for a large open source project ?! Not really. The current system works and is understood without retraining. The switch to hg has never been about tweaking the workflow of committers, but that of contributors.

Although, as with the CVS to SVN transmissions, the workflows of committers will likely change over time as we become more adept at exploiting the more powerful tool.

I liked Joel Spolsky's observation that in moving from a centralised VCS to a distributed VCS, the key idea to wrap your head around is the shift from managing file (and repository) revisions to coherent changesets. I suspect that's something that can only happen properly by using a DVCS for a while.

Cheers, Nick.

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

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