From: David Michael Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:05:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Subversion integration with git
Message-ID: <52A6E51B-058C-4B06-A271-26219B388BE7@cordelta.com>
In-Reply-To: <f3271551003251052j5863af46i3066f0f42788ba3b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

>> 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/