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[python-committers] Do people prefer pushing feature repos or one massive patch?

Brett Cannon bcannon at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 18:39:46 CEST 2015 
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:38 PM Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015, at 12:09, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > The implementation for PEP 488 is basically done (sans Windows installer
> > stuff). I did the work in a features repo at
> > https://hg.python.org/features/pep-488/ . Once I have addressed reviewer
> > comments at http://bugs.python.org/issue23731 , would people prefer I
> > simply push the features repo to hg.python.org/cpython and have the more
> > granular history but have various "merge default" commits, or would
> > people
> > rather I do one massive commit?
>
> I tend to prefer the one massive commit especially if there's a lot of
> "in progress" commits in the branch. It makes for cleaner and
> more-transactional history.
>

The commits are actually self-contained so that's not an issue in this
case. But I do understand the desire for the easy rollback potential.
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