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

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Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Mar 28, 2010, 12:10 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>:
> Project Proposal: git-remote-svn | Native SVN support in Git
> Student: Ramkumar Ramachandra
> Mentor: Sverre Rabbelier
+1

I've just been through a Subversion-to-git migration, and have been directly affected by an inadequacy in git-svn - failure to recognizer SVN tags as tags rather than branches. See my blog post at <http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1806>, "Subversion to GIT Migration: A Tale of Two Gotchas" for discussion.

Accordingly, I support Ramkumar's proposal to rethink and rewrite the Subversion interface. A concerted effort to do seamless interoperability would be well justified given the ubiquity of Subversion. I think Rankumar has chosen a goal that is useful, well defined, and realistically scoped.

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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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Message 5 of 6 in “Re: native-git-svn: A Summer of Code 2010 proposal”
  1. Steven MichalskeMar 27, 2010
  2. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 27, 2010
  3. Steven MichalskeMar 27, 2010
  4. Eric RaymondMar 27, 2010
  5. Eric RaymondMar 28, 2010
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 29, 2010

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