Re: status of git interop with other VCS

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2012, 20:40 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmx0otmbb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0knJKGK=jD=_dBUn+idVSEs+KxwvQJWc7oS_BvzPR9jJw@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi Paul,
>
> Paul Wise wrote:
>> svn: there was a gsoc project for this but it was never merged:
>>
>> http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SoC2011Projects#Remote_helper_for_Subversion_and_git-svn
>
> I wouldn't give up on that yet. What is the status of fa/remote-helper?

An excerpt from recent "What's cooking":

    * fa/remote-svn (2012-08-28) 16 commits
     - Add a test script for remote-svn
     - remote-svn: add marks-file regeneration
     - Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing
     - remote-svn: add incremental import
     - remote-svn: Activate import/export-marks for fast-import
     - Create a note for every imported commit containing svn metadata
     - vcs-svn: add fast_export_note to create notes
     - Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls
     - remote-svn, vcs-svn: Enable fetching to private refs
     - When debug==1, start fast-import with "--stats" instead of "--quiet"
     - Add documentation for the 'bidi-import' capability of remote-helpers
     - Connect fast-import to the remote-helper via pipe, adding 'bidi-import' capability
     - Add argv_array_detach and argv_array_free_detached
     - Add svndump_init_fd to allow reading dumps from arbitrary FDs
     - Add git-remote-testsvn to Makefile and .gitignore
     - Implement a remote helper for svn in C
     (this branch is used by fa/vcs-svn.)

     A GSoC project.  Looked promising.
     Waiting for comments from mentors and stakeholders.

    * fa/vcs-svn (2012-08-28) 4 commits
     - vcs-svn: remove repo_tree
     - vcs-svn/svndump: rewrite handle_node(), begin|end_revision()
     - vcs-svn/svndump: restructure node_ctx, rev_ctx handling
     - svndump: move struct definitions to .h
     (this branch uses fa/remote-svn.)

     A GSoC project.  Looked promising.
     Waiting for comments from mentors and stakeholders.