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Re: Subversion integration with git

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David Michael Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Date
Mar 30, 2010, 14:05 UTC
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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?
> 
> ... 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.
> 
> 
> 
> -- Ram

I've started looking at the first piece of the pipeline, reading from a remote subversion URL. I stumbled upon rsvndump[2], which is GPLv3+ licensed and promises to produce a Subversion dump from a remote repository. This could be piped to my utility, svn-dump-fast-export[3], to produce suitable input for git fast-import. I believe this would address the first two components of Ram's. proposal and allow more focus to be given to the interesting ones. That's presuming that I have a feature-complete release by the time the GSoC project begins.

My project is currently under a two-clause BSD style license. This is primarily because the two projects it derives from were distributed under the same license, rather than any preference.

As I've included a reference to my project, I'll emphasise that it is a work in progress, with a handful of known bugs. At present, symlinks are damaged on update and some files disappear late in the history of my test repository. I'm planning a rewrite of the parser once symlinks are complete.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/142623 [2] http://rsvndump.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://github.com/barrbrain/svn-dump-fast-export/

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  1. David Michael BarrMar 25, 2010
  2. Erik Faye-LundMar 25, 2010
  3. Pascal ObryMar 25, 2010
  4. David Michael BarrMar 28, 2010
  5. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 25, 2010
  6. David Michael BarrMar 25, 2010
  7. David Michael BarrMar 30, 2010
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 30, 2010

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