On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 21/03/2008, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bazaar supports lightweight checkouts which act like svn checkouts. > > They are also actively working on allowing for partial checkouts. That > > way you can either specify an initial revision to pull the history > > down to or start with an initial lightweight checkout and have it save > > history as it pulls it over the network as you use it. > > I know, but the details aren't 100% clear yet. Mercurial is in much > the same situation (although perhaps less far down that route - Bazaar > development seems far faster at the moment, for better or worse). > > One point, which I assume you know but others may not - a bazaar > "checkout" is not like a local branch. In a checkout, all commits go > straight back to the parent branch, meaning that local commits aren't > possible (OK, that's an oversimplification, but let's keep things > simple) and the workflow is much more like Subversion. You can commit locally on a Bazaar checkout by adding the --local option to commit. This feature is supposed to add the flexibility to have team branches, where a bunch of people can work on a branch. > > > The biggest problem with DVCSs is the vast range of subtly different > terminology, for related but distinct concepts. It makes having a > common terminology for comparisons really hard, resulting in all sorts > of confusion :-( > > Paul. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/musiccomposition%40gmail.com >
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