On Sun, 06 Mar 2011, Nicolas Chauvat wrote: > > > There was some discussions about switching from SVN to git. > CPython just switched to mercurial.
And Cython just switched from mercurial to GIT, having previousely switched got HG from SVN IIRC... may be that is a logical generic roadwork? ;) > Mercurial works well with multiple repositories (subrepo extension) ah thanks -- at times I need to look at HG repos, and I could not figure out how to get multiple 'remotes' -- I guess that is the way. (although usually I just do use some kind of git-hg bridging using fast-exports) > and handles well patches (mercurial queues). well, for that we have quilt already as the official backend regardless of the VCS > Wouldn't managing python packages with mercurial make sense? it would as much as with any other DVCS, such as GIT. I am yet to hear any objective advantage for using Python-based DVCS because they are written in Python to maintain python packages -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110306223015.gi29...@onerussian.com
