2009/4/5 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan <at> ochtman.nl> writes: >> >> I also think 100MB+ is a cheap price to pay, >> given you only pay it in disk space (cheap) and initial clone time (not >> very often, and usually still quite fast). > > It is a cheap price to pay if there is a significant return for it. In my > experience using the hg mirror of the py3k branch, I don't remember having had > to run "annotate" on the trunk to hunt for a change that I'd witnessed in > py3k. > Other developers may have different experiences, though.
I agree with Dirkjan. > > As for the clone time, one of our proeminent developers is, IIRC, on a 40 kb/s > line. Perhaps he wants to step in and say whether cloning the trunk is a > painful > experience for him, or not. I suppose this is me. Cloning the hg trunk repo only takes slightly longer than an svn checkout for me, and it only needs to be done occasionally, so I have no problem with including all the history. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
