[Python-Dev] Mercurial?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Apr 5 20:40:20 CEST 2009


>> I think at least 3.x and 2.x should live in separate repos. It is
>> pointless for
>> a clone of py3k to end up pulling all 40000+ changesets from the
>> trunk. It would
>> add 100MB+ to every py3k clone (that is, quadrupling the size of the
>> repository).
> 
> I don't agree. It's quite annoying for things like annotate/blame, for
> example, where you may have to switch to another branch while chasing
> down a defective change.

FWIW, I also think that all branches should go back to the very beginning.

> Okay, sounds like that will be easy. Would be good to enable compression
> on the SSH, though, if that's not already done.

Where is that configured?

Regards,
Martin


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