[Python-Dev] Mercurial?

[Alexandre Vassalotti]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre <at> peadrop.com> writes:
>>
>> Off the top of my head, the following is needed for a successful migration:
>
> There's also the issue of how we adapt the current workflow of "svnmerging"
> between branches when we want to back- or forward-port stuff. In particular,
> tracking of already done or blocked backports.
>
> (the issue being that "svnmerge" is different from what DVCS'es call "merging"
> :-))
>

See the PEP about that. I have written a fair amount of details how
this would work with Mercurial:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#backport

-- Alexandre