From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:17:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add SVN->Git conversion example to documentation
Message-ID: <20080615131742.GA316@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20080614180334.GA26359@zakalwe.fi>

On 2008-06-14 21:03:34 +0300, Heikki Orsila wrote:

>  DESCRIPTION
>  -----------
> -git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between Subversion and git.
> -It is not to be confused with linkgit:git-svnimport[1], which is
> -read-only.
> +git-svn is a simple bidirectional conduit for changesets between
> +Subversion and git. It is used to develop projects with Git tools,
> +but commit changes to a Subversion repository. It can also be used to
> +convert a Subversion repository to a Git repository. It should not to
> +be confused with linkgit:git-svnimport[1], which does Subversion to
> +Git conversion, but not the other direction.

I don't know if it's such a good idea to mention git-svnimport at all;
but if you do, please also mention that it's no longer supported. (But
really, since it is no longer supported, I doubt mentioning it is a
good idea.)

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
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