[python-committers] branches and merging

[Antoine Pitrou]

> Two months later...
> 
> I can confirm I can clone now http://hg.python.org/cpython/ , using the
> new Mercurial 1.5.2. If the repository was not overhaulted, this is GOOD.
> 
> The repository has 443 heads. Half a gig. Uffffffffffff.

For daily work, I suggest you use http://code.python.org/hg instead. It
is much more lightweight (a separate repo for each branch) and, since it
isn't meant to test the conversion, the changeset IDs won't change.