[lwip-devel] Re: [lwip-members] Mercurial

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello Kieran, all,

Kieran Mansley wrote:
> I notice that savannah now supports mercurial as an alternative to CVS
> for projects hosted there.  I much prefer working with mercurial, and so
> would be interested in moving lwIP over to that, but appreciate that
> others might have different opinions.
>
> It has some obvious downsides: the conversion would involve some work,
> and probably lose our CVS commit history, and developers not already
> familiar with mercurial would have to learn how to use it.
>
>   
For most repository alternatives (mtn, mercurial, git, ...) there are
decent tools to convert an existing CVS repo over.
Doesn't Savannah support this?
> Please make your opinions known.  Unless there is a strong show of
> support for the move, and few objections, I'll leave it as CVS.
>   
I would favor mercurial (or anything alike) over CVS, but I do think the
history should be preserved, at least for the
HEAD branch.

I haven't touched lwIP code for years now though, glad the project is
alive and kicking. My fingers are itching though :-)

Regards,

Leon.