[GSoC update] git-remote-svn: Week 6

Hi,

The skeleton svnclient using the RA API is finally complete, and I've already sent a WIP patch to the list. David, Jonathan and I have been working hard on the svn-fe.git to optimize it, and add support for incremental dumps. I also made another another attempt to get svn-fe.git merged into git.git, and Jonathan's awesome review has made us fix more things- I'm confident that I'm closer to getting it merged now. We also found that we're using mmap() with MAP_SHARED, and that this is not portable (see discussion on mailing list)- we have started working on an alternative now. After this is complete, I'll send another series to the mailing list, and that should (hopefully) be merged. In the meantime, I'm scrambling to complete the svnclient so it actually dumps data in dumpfile format, so I can connect it up with the exporter. For the mid-term evaluations, I estimate that the remote helper should be complete with the import capability and be merged into git.git. A minimalistic export capability should be an added bonus.

-- Ram