Re: [RFC] "Remote helper for Subversion" project

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 27, 2012, 03:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0mMHjYpmxckanoPbqD=TrKR-i+7SjBEf2-8cV0kvPx0qA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120304075424.GI14725@burratino>

Hi,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> David Barr wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:27 PM, David Barr <davidbarr@google.com> wrote:
>>> +
>>> +* Getting an Git-to-SVN converter merged.
>
> Probably could fill a summer in itself.  In previous starts I think
> there was some complexity creep. :/
>
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170290
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170551

I've been meaning to finish this off for sometime now- probably as an SoC project this summer?

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>>> +
>>> +* Building the remote helper itself.
>>> +
>>> +Goal: Build a full-featured bi-directional `git-remote-svn` and get it
>>> +      merged into upstream Git.
>
> Sure would be neat. ;-)  Another nice piece to build would be branch
> tracking / follow_parent heuristics.

This doesn't sound awfully complicated; if the Git -> SVN converter gets merged early on, I might get a chance to work on this as well.

Ram