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On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 10:13:38PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Experience with Nixpkgs suggests that topic branches are better:
> core-updates does rebuild-the-world changes, so you don’t want to merge
> it lightly, and not too often; conversely the Python changes are
> relatively isolated.

I just created a branch "python" and added it to hydra. Indeed, the good
thing is that one can now experiment and break everything...

Andreas