On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> wrote: >> 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).
And that's the proper way to describe this. > 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 Exactly. -- anatoly t. _______________________________________________ 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
