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Re: Git / Subversion Interoperability

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Mar 23, 2007, 10:34 UTC
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<20070323103426.GA15923@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0703230128330.4001@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>
On 2007-03-23 01:36:11 +0000, Julian Phillips wrote:
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> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
> > I thought about the properties, but didn't bother to write
> > anything on that subject as we may just be able to say "look,
> > properties are not supported in git-svnserver, so don't try to use
> > them".
>
> Indeed. That's what I was aiming at with the the last sentence (not
> very clearly unfortunately). It would be nice if the server could
> tell the client that properties are not supported ... but I doubt
> that it can, since they are fundamental part of Subversion.
>
> In particular it's how the client finds out about things like
> symlinks and line ending conversion. It may be necessary to provide
> some basic support for some of the properties in the svn:...
> namespace in order for the Subversion repo access library not to
> refuse to talk to the git server.

Maybe the pragmatic solution would be to have built-in handling of a few properties such as svn:executable and svn:ignore that have git equivalents, and just emulate all other properties with files.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle
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  1. Bruno Cesar RibasMar 22, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceMar 23, 2007
  3. Julian PhillipsMar 23, 2007
  4. Shawn O. PearceMar 23, 2007
  5. Julian PhillipsMar 23, 2007
  6. Karl HasselströmMar 23, 2007
  7. Bruno Cesar RibasMar 23, 2007
  8. Karl HasselströmMar 23, 2007
  9. Julian PhillipsMar 23, 2007
  10. Bruno Cesar RibasMar 23, 2007
  11. David LangMar 23, 2007
  12. Daniel BarkalowMar 23, 2007
  13. Shawn O. PearceMar 24, 2007
  14. Karl HasselströmMar 24, 2007
  15. Linus TorvaldsMar 24, 2007
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2007
  17. Sam VilainMar 26, 2007
  18. Christian WieseMar 23, 2007
  19. Steven GrimmMar 23, 2007
  20. Shawn O. PearceMar 24, 2007
  21. Sam VilainMar 26, 2007
  22. Jakub NarebskiMar 23, 2007
  23. Shawn O. PearceMar 24, 2007
  24. Eric WongMar 24, 2007
  25. Eric WongMar 24, 2007

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