[Python-Dev] devguide: Fix a silly statement.

[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Éric Araujo <merwok at 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.
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anatoly t.