[Python-Dev] I would like an svn account

[Georg Brandl]

Martin v. Löwis schrieb:
>> I don't know about others, but downloading and applying a patch doesn't
>> bother me (it's actually much quicker than doing a whole new SVN checkout).
> 
> Same here. In fact, when I had to backport patches before the usage of
> svnmerge.py, I would always apply the original patch multiple times,
> rather than trying to use svn merge.
> 
> Integrating patches is only tedious if they don't apply cleanly anymore,
> in which case I usually ask the contributor to regenerate it (which they
> often can easily do as they had been tracking trunk in their own
> sandboxes).
> 
>> You could clone one of the existing DCVS mirrors and open a branch on a public
>> hosting service (bitbucket.org, launchpad, etc.). The annoying thing, though,
>> is that it requires your co-workers to learn the DVCS in question.
> 
> We (as his co-workers) would continue to request patches. So the DVCS
> better has a convenient way to generate a patch (even from multiple DVCS
> commits). I think that's what (git) people call "feature branch": a
> branch with the sole purpose of developing a single patch.

One good thing is also that a big change is usually split up into multiple
commits, and each commit can be exported as a single patch.  I for one am
much better at reviewing small, isolated changes, than glorious rewrites
of a whole module, and I suspect I'm not alone in this.  So it's much
better to have a large change chunked into small, manageable bites that
can even be applied individually without having to pull in everything
at once.

cheers,
Georg

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