Re: Subversion integration with git

From: David Michael Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Date: Mar 25, 2010, 23:50 UTC
Message-ID: <4170AB98-B7C4-4351-B793-351B3DE74A4F@cordelta.com>
In-Reply-To: <f3271551003251052j5863af46i3066f0f42788ba3b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

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>> I think it falls very close to the native-git-svn Google SoC
>> project[1], and if you are able to share what you have I'm sure
>> Ramkumar (I hope you don't mind me CC'ing you, and that I spelled your
>> name right) would appreciate having a look.
> 
> Yes. Thank you for CC'ing me, Erik.
> 
>> Is it worthwhile to start a new project - or would it be better to grok the internals of existing projects and try to make them scale?
> 
> However, if my proposal gets accepted, I
> could work with you to get it integrated into the remote helper that
> I'll be building. Depending on the complexity of your project, this
> might only be possible at the end of my GSoC term.

>From Ramkumar's proposal[1]:

> The distinct components I plan to write are:

> 2. An exporter for SVN repositories, which will extract all the
> relevant revision history and metadata to import into Git.
> 3. A remote helper for Git that takes the data from this SVN exporter,
> and uses git-fast-import to create corresponding commits in Git.

The scope of my project roughly corresponds to these two components.

With regard to licensing issues, I opted to work only with import/export streams so that no linking is required.

In the context of GSoC, I am studying my final year of a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science x 2) at Australian National University, Canberra. As for FOSS contributions, the last time I released something was when I helped port the iBurst wireless broadband driver (USB interface) [2] a few years ago; the demands of life vs. one's passion.