On 2/9/2011 3:29 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Why talk about "checkout" at all? It's an SVN/CVS/RCS term, if I'm not mistaken (even though it may occasionally be used with hg, it's a synonym of "working copy" there).
I believe it harkens back to early source code control systems where one person literally 'checked out' a file and got a write lock on it, similar to checking out a particular volume from the library )except that others could still read, unlike with the library).
yes. good riddance (already done). -- Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ 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
