On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > Ondrej Certik wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:45 PM, David Cournapeau >> <da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: >>> Ondrej Certik wrote: >>>> It is maybe easier to learn how to work with different clones, but >>>> once you start working with lots of patches and you need to reclone >>>> all the time, then it's the wrong approach to work, as it takes lots >>>> of time to copy the whole repository on the disk. > > This is simply wrong. Mercurial uses hard links for cloning a repo that
On my laptop, recloning the whole repository (with hardlinks) takes considerably longer than creating a new branch in the same directory, that's a pure fact. > is on the same disk, so it is faster and much more space-efficient than > copying the files. But if you do want named branches in a given repo, > you can have that also with hg. Granted, it has not always been part of > hg, but it is now. Same with rebasing and transplanting. As far as I know mercurial doesn't have interactive rebase. Besides, the default package in Ubuntu Jaunty doesn't even have the (noninteractive) rebase enabled. So I think it will still take quite some (lot?) of time until mercurial has all those tools available by default. > > Now, I know that your (speaking to Ondrej) project switched from hg to > git, and you have provided some useful insight as to why. I also > understand that there are substantive differences between the two, with > advantages and disadvantages. But I don't think it follows that numpy > (or matplotlib, eventually, I hope) necessarily should move to git I never said numpy should move to git because I like git. > if/when a move to a DVCS is decided upon. It is possible that hg might > be a better fit--a better compromise--for present *and* *potential* > *future* contributors to numpy, scipy, and matplotlib. Yes, it may be possible. Ondrej _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
