From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:51:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Git to SVN bridge
Message-ID: <CALkWK0mdzWQRY=fSmyML1p7352c7Lb3vuYoJd+TXSdTmFX1teg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120419225659.GA4971@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> In other words, if you are hitting a wall with that part which doesn't
> seem to have much to do with differences between git and Subversion
> anyway, I imagine there are easier places to start.  Alternatively, if
> you prefer to work on making it easy for an importer to handle "ls"
> and "cat" commands and mark references, I think our previous attempts
> were misguided and we can do better. :)  What do you think?

Yeah, I think the fast-export filter was a misguided attempt.  In
addition to git-fast-export, we have to start up a fast-import process
that'll reply to our "ls" and "cat" commands, and I think we'll be
good.  I'm a little more worried about the mapper- I'm finding it hard
to imagine a fast-import stream that contains subdirectories
(branches/*) as opposed to head refs.  Any idea how we'll achieve
that?

    Ram