[Python-Dev] Mercurial mirrors

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Aug 26 20:47:32 CEST 2008


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Thanks to Neil Schemenauer, we now have some Mercurial mirrors hosted at
> http://code.python.org/hg/
>
> Here are the URLs for each of the available repositories:
> - http://code.python.org/hg/trunk/
> - http://code.python.org/hg/branches/py3k/
> - http://code.python.org/hg/branches/release2.5-maint/
>
> For Mercurial beginners, each of the URLs above references both a human-readable
> Web interface to browse the repositories (view changesets, subscribe to an RSS
> feed, annotate source files...), and a machine-queryable address to "clone" the
> repositories for local, offline use.
>
> That is, if you run "hg clone http://code.python.org/hg/trunk/", you'll get a
> "trunk" subdirectory containing the whole trunk history in a local repository,
> as well as a working copy. You can then do, e.g. "hg annotate setup.py" at light
> speed.
>
> The Mercurial mirrors are sync'ed with the SVN repo every 5 minutes. They are
> read-only, that is you cannot push to them.
>

But can we push branches up to our personal directories on
code.python.org like we can with bzr?

-Brett


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