> Well, it's no good to keep using CVCS terms and mislead users. That the > "checkout" is not a checkout but a full repository is about the most important > fact about a hg (or any DVCS) clone.
Well, to really use the Mercurial terms, what you have when you get stuff from a remote server to your disk is a clone, which contains a full repository and may contain a working copy (also called checkout). IOW, “check out” is used with Mercurial, as a synonym for “update”, an operation from the (local) repo to the working directory; the CVCS-inspired mistake is to use that to refer to an operation from a remote server to the local disk (“clone”, “pull”). HTH Regards _______________________________________________ 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
