Re: Summer of Code project ideas due this Friday

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 13, 2011, 17:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20110313170815.GB19763@kytes>
In-Reply-To: <20110310001017.GA24169@elie>

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Nieder writes:

> 3. Remote helpers: bidi git remote-svn (or one-way remote-hg, or
>    remote-cvs, or ...).

I wrote a small introduction and created an entry for git-remote-svn
in the wiki [1]. Two minor concerns:
1. The student will have to work very closely with us, and pick up a
   lot of scattered WIP patches. I hope he doesn't get confused
   between what's merged and what's in-progress.
2. The project isn't as de-coupled as we'd ideally like. The student
   has to learn about the new fast-import features, and the
   information contained in an SVN replay dumpstream before diving in.

Other than these, I think most of the pending work is in the mapper.

> 4. filter-branch killer: using fast-import's new features to implement
>    common filter-branch operations (--subdirectory-filter,
>    --prune-empty, obliterating certain files) faster.

This is an interesting project that I'd also thought about: it might get tangled up along with the Sequencer project though. Should we put up this project on the wiki nevertheless?

p.s- Sorry about the late reply; I wasn't in station.

[1] SoC2011Ideas#Welcome and SoC2011Ideas#Remote_helper_for_Subversion

-- Ram