Re: [GSoC update extra!] git-remote-svn: Week 8

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Jun 24, 2010, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20100624213204.GA22756@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100624180752.GA1642@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

> [1] Eric, we are discussing the remote-svn series[2] and especially
> Ram, Sverre, and David’s recent comments[3].  Apologies for not
> keeping you in the loop sooner; your insights have always been
> helpful in the past.

No worries Jonathan, I've been preoccupied with several other projects, none of which require dealing with SVN :)

Show 6 quoted lines

> As for the idea of reimplementing git-svn on top of svn-fe: yes, the
> fast-import stream would need more information to support
> --follow-parent, but that piece is not so hard to add AFAICT.  Of
> course, I am mentioning this not because it is important to keep the
> git-svn interface but because the --stdlayout feature is very useful
> and we may want to port it over some day.

Yes, I've always found --stdlayout very convenient and hope it lives on.

-- 
Eric Wong