Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial workflow question...

2012-12-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Raymond Hettinger writes: > Does hg's ability to "make merges easier than svn" depend on having > all the intermediate commits? I thought the theory was that the smaller > changesets provided extra information that made it possible to merge > two expansive groups of changes. Tim Delaney's ex

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial workflow question...

2012-12-16 Thread Tim Delaney
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Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial workflow question...

2012-12-16 Thread Tim Delaney
Possibly. A collapsed changeset is more likely to have larger hunks of changes e.g. two changesets that each modified adjacent pieces of code get collapsed down to a single change hunk - which would make the merge machinery have to work harder to detect moved hunks, etc. In practice, so long as ea

Re: [Python-Dev] Mercurial workflow question...

2012-12-16 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On Dec 13, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Chris Jerdonek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:48 PM, R. David Murray > wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:21:24 -0500, Trent Nelson wrote: >>>- Use a completely separate clone to house all the intermediate >>> commits, then generate a diff once

Re: [Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #16049: add abc.ABC helper class.

2012-12-16 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 13.12.2012 18:09, schrieb andrew.svetlov: > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9347869d1066 > changeset: 80840:9347869d1066 > user:Andrew Svetlov > date:Thu Dec 13 19:09:33 2012 +0200 > summary: > Issue #16049: add abc.ABC helper class. > > Patch by Bruno Dupuis. > > files: