Nick Coghlan wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> BTW: I also doubt that Mercurial will make any of this easier. >> It makes creating branches easier for non-committers, but the >> problem of having to maintain the branches remains. > > It greatly simplifies the process of syncing the branch with the main > line of development so yes, it should help with branch maintenance > (svnmerge is a pale shadow of what a true DVCS can handle). That aspect > is one of the DVCS selling points that also applies to core development.
Sure, the merge process is simplified and faster, but you still have to go through the changes and conflicts after each merge and that part is IMHO what makes maintaining a branch difficult. I don't think that a version control system can really help a lot with this manual step. I'd love to be proved wrong, though :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 02 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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
