Re: [GSoC] Git to SVN bridge

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 19, 2012, 03:55 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0=7SPR-4Km5TUwg+rHm30aC7Uru9GJkkfYnL3OORV7nfg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120418201050.GB30625@burratino>

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> For what it's worth, if you'd like to propose a plan for getting push
> support in the svn remote helper to work (what the architecture would
> be like, what milestones would be involved along the way, and so on),
> then I would be happy to help flesh it out.  Even forgetting about the
> summer of code and setting a good example, I imagine such design
> documents could be useful for developers and reviewers working on the
> project to avoid getting lost.

Sure. Briefly: Give 'vcs-svn/' the ability to spit out a Subversion dumpfile. If you remember, we hit a brick wall last time when we needed a way to persist mark-referenced-blobs in the fast-import stream. Once we get svn-fi (the reverse of svn-fe) merged, the next step is in getting a reverse-branch-mapper to work. The mapper will have to sit between the repository and svn-fi, because we can't really do much with the history on the svn end.

Ram