Re: native-git-svn: A Summer of Code 2010 proposal

From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Mar 21, 2010, 17:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20100321170808.GA15512@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1003201724270.14365@iabervon.org>

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 05:58:34PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

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> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> 
> > Due to a licensing conflict, the details of which can be found here
> > [1], git-remote-svn will link to libsvn, but will NOT link to Git. It
> > will simply use a thin wrapper to call compiled Git executables
> > (referred to as remote helper in article).
> 
> It should be possible to avoid calling any git executables (directly or 
> otherwise); git should call you with all the information you need.

Don't know about importer modes, but in native connection mode it is possible to avoid calling or linking to git in any way (been there, done that).

And if one doesn't need git APIs, its completely possible to avoid linking into git (this may mean some mode coding effor however).

-Ilari