Re: frysk-cvs patch tuning

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Phil Muldoon wrote:
> > Is it possible to tune frysk-cvs mailing list to include patches, and 
> > not links to patches? I find this list very useful, and read the 
> > list/patches everyday. but I hate the mass clicking on links. It 
> > would make reply-to questions on some code more context-friendly if 
> > the patch part is included in the email.
> Well, if we switched from CVS then this would be a non-issue.  I 
> wonder if that is a better solution.  (Would certainly have made my 
> life this morning easier :-)

I've been playing with Mercurial lately, and I did an import of the 
Frysk CVS head using Tailor. I was not able to import any branches or 
any change-set information which was disappointing. That might be a lack 
of information on my part.  Or the wrong conversion tool. Others might 
have more luck.

But from an experimental viewpoint, I really, really did like the 
concept of Mercurial and distributed version control. There are other 
similar systems (GIT comes to mind). I really like the idea of having 
your own control of  your own local repository, pull and pushing 
change-sets from a "main" repository, and so on.  And it would help 
tremendously in branches (not to mention diffs, patch review and so on).

I don't have an outward facing machine so this is all locally done on my 
machine. But it after taking a walk away from CVS, I'm not keen to go 
back ;)

Regards

Phil