[Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

[Georg Brandl]

On 25.02.2011 09:25, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> Am 25.02.2011 09:17, schrieb Dirkjan Ochtman:
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:09, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>>> I think I would have liked the strategy of the PEP better (i.e.
>>> create clones for feature branches, rather than putting all
>>> in a single repository).
>> 
>> Unnamed heads are trivial to convert to clones.
> 
> If there are hundreds of them, it's far from trivial. I don't even know
> how to find out which one to convert.

The full-history repo has several ways to get at that information, so it's
quite for us to extract feature branches as separate clones.

Since most side-track branches won't actually be needed anymore, we'd like
to reconstruct them on request.  I assume you'd like to have pep-0383?

Georg