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Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-svn - bidirection operations between svn and git

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Feb 16, 2006, 08:48 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
> 
> > @ Junio: Is there room for this in the git distribution alongside
> > git-svnimport?
> 
> Surely.  Things that superficially do similar things are not
> necessarily mutually exclusive, if that is what you are worried
> about.  There is not much incumbent advantage for tools that
> support a narrowly defined specific task (e.g. interfacing with
> foreign SCM X) on the periphery, while I would perhaps feel more
> hesitant to support 47 different variants of git-commit ;-).
<snip>
 
> Even having some experimental tools that are only starting to do
> useful things might be useful, if we had it in the git.git
> repository.  For one thing, it would give more exposure to them
> and help improve things.
Good to know.  I fully agree on this point.
> How about first adding a contrib/ directory and see how it goes?

Sure thing. Don't worry about development history, there's hardly any as it was all done pretty quickly. Being able to draw from my experiences with svn-arch-mirror, arch-svn-merge (this one sucked), and git-archimport helped greatly; as did the very simple and flexible nature of git.

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Eric Wong
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Message 10 of 15 in “[ANNOUNCE] git-svn - bidirection operations between svn and git”
  1. Eric WongFeb 16, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2006
  3. Aneesh KumarFeb 16, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2006
  5. Aneesh KumarFeb 16, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2006
  7. Aneesh KumarFeb 16, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisFeb 16, 2006
  9. Aneesh KumarFeb 16, 2006
  10. Eric WongFeb 16, 2006
  11. Eduardo Pereira HabkostFeb 16, 2006
  12. Eric WongFeb 16, 2006
  13. git-svn: fix revision order when XML::Simple is not loadedEric Wong, Feb 16, 2006
  14. Eric WongFeb 16, 2006
  15. git-svn: ensure fetch always works chronologically.Eric Wong, Feb 17, 2006

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