[Python-Dev] Helping contributors with chores (do we have to?) (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Sun Jun 25 17:59:42 EDT 2017

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 10:39:36PM +0100, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

for someone coming from a familiarity with Mercurial (which means many core devs) the learning curve is pretty steep (I'd consider that

I switched to git after had been using hg for about 3 years. The first few months after the switch were rather painful. It took me a year to start understanding git and another year to master it. But I'm a slow thinker, I must admit.

self-evident, because of the differences between the 2 systems).

Not sure about self-evidence. At the first glance they look similar. Both are DVCSes with DAG. The devil is in the details. In a lot of small quite different details.

Paul

Oleg.

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