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Sat Jul 3 23:51:58 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101415.html

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:

> - - Create a "pristine" clone of the trunk (one where I never commit any
>  changes):
>
>  $ cd $python_repo
>  $ hg clone http://code.python.org/hg/trunk/ pytrunk-upstream
>
> - - Create a local clone from that repository:
>
>  $ hg clone pytrunk-upstream pytrunk-work
>  $ ./configure && make
>

My question is basically the same as Terry Reedy's, but I'm going to phrase
it a bit differently:

This is perhaps a naive question, but why do you create a second local clone
instead of just creating a branch?
--
Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.
President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC <http://stutzbachenterprises.com>
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