Re: [GSoC update] git-remote-svn: The final one

From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Date: Aug 17, 2010, 16:20 UTC
Message-ID: <27168737.115723.1282062015125.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100817155933.GB6947@kytes>

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> > So being selfish, what I care about is an improved method for
> > converting SVN repos to git repos once and never going back. It
> > sounds to me like the major hurdles remaining there are getting
> > svn-fe to handle dumpfile v3 and handling branches/tags. Is that
> > correct?
> 
> We're doing better than that- when the whole thing is complete, we
> should have perfectly seamless two-way compatibility.

That makes complete sense.  It just happens I'm interested in a subset of the problem (the order has come down from on high that we will be using git for future development), so I'm curious if/how a one-time conversion simplifies things.

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> But yes, you're
> right- there are several non-trivial tasks to handle, the top three of
> which are:
> 1. Making svn-fe git-aware (and hence handle dumpfile v3)
> 2. Writing a fast-export to dumpfilev3 converter
> 3. Implementing the branch/ tag mapper in an extensible way

Thanks for clarifying.

> Don't worry about it though- we're all working hard on it :)

I believe that :)  And you're not holding me up; I've spent my spare time this summer coming up with some Perl scripts to work with svn-fe for the one-time conversion, so I'll have my point case solved in the near future.  But I'm sure the problem will come up again, and I'll be happy to use the general tool then.

Thanks, Stephen