Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le dimanche 14 mars 2010 à 03:52 +0100, Jesus Cea a écrit : >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 03/14/2010 03:35 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >>>> Mercurial, where are you?. This would be a non issue :) >>> How so? >> The release manager could clone the repository to getting it ready for >> release, while the main repository accepts new changesets. The point >> would be not stopping commits, ever. > > We could already do so with SVN, simply by opening a release branch when > entering rc phase, and only merging selected (release blocking) fixes to > that branch. There's nothing DVCS-specific here.
I came across an interesting explanation from Joel Spolsky the other day as to why this isn't actually true (even with svnmerge): http://hginit.com/00.html Short version: SVN and other non-DVCS systems don't store enough (or the right) metadata to support merging properly, so branching becomes unnecessarily painful. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
