From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:56:00 GMT
Subject: Re: GSOC Proposal draft: git-remote-svn
Message-ID: <20120411155537.GA4248@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <m3y5q29si7.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>>  2. Teach the remote helper to import a single project from a
>>     repository that houses multiple projects (i.e., path limiting).
>>
>>  3. Teach the remote helper to split an imported project that uses
>>     the standard layout into branches (an application of the code
>>     from (2)).  This complicates the scheme for mapping between
>>     Subversion revision numbers and git commit ids.
>
> Can't we use the either peg rev notation of externals, or the notation
> that Subversion itself uses for svn:mergeinfo?

Maybe. ;-)  Could you give an example?  Where would the text in this
notation be stored in the git repository?  How are lookups performed?