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Re: [PATCH 6/6] Add git-remote-svn

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 5, 2010, 02:26 UTC
Message-ID
<20101005022623.GE10818@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<1286108511-55876-6-git-send-email-tom@dbservice.com>
Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> This is an experimental git remote helper for svn repositories. It uses
> the new git fast-import-helper.

Not sure how to review this without some sense of how the fast-import-helper works.

> It uses notes to save the git commit -> svn revision
> mapping (refs/notes/svn).
Good. :)

Caching the mapping back in the other direction would be very simple. A simple array of commit hashes indexed by svn revision number would not take up much space in memory and could easily be randomly accessed on disk.

Previous: Tomas CarneckyNext: Sverre Rabbelier
Message 18 of 21 in “[RFC] New type of remote helpers”
  1. Tomas CarneckyOct 3, 2010
  2. 1/6 Remote helper: accept ':<value> <name>' as a response to 'list'Tomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  3. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  4. Sverre RabbelierOct 7, 2010
  5. 2/6 Allow more than one keepfile in the transportTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  6. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  7. 3/6 Allow the transport fetch command to add additional refsTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  8. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  9. 4/6 Rename get_mode() to decode_tree_mode() and export itTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  11. 5/6 Introduce the git fast-import-helperTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  12. Jonathan NiederOct 3, 2010
  13. Tomas CarneckyOct 3, 2010
  14. Sverre RabbelierOct 3, 2010
  15. Tomas CarneckyOct 3, 2010
  16. Sverre RabbelierOct 3, 2010
  17. 6/6 Add git-remote-svnTomas Carnecky, Oct 3, 2010
  18. Jonathan NiederOct 5, 2010
  19. Sverre RabbelierOct 3, 2010
  20. Jonathan NiederOct 3, 2010
  21. Ramkumar RamachandraOct 3, 2010

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