Re: [RFC] git pull and importers

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Apr 7, 2007, 17:41 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704071323010.27922@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wiwfeo5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > Which would mean that it would use "git svn fetch" instead of "git fetch" 
> > for that remote, and "git svn fetch" would use that config section instead 
> > of its current config section.
> >
> > Any reason this couldn't be made to work?
> 
> No reason.  Making git-$(scm)import to behave more like
> git-fetch-pack backend was one of the longstanding items on my
> wishlist.  I think "cvsimport -i" could mostly be usable in the
> current shape for that, but I do not know about others.

I picked git-svn in part because it looks especially obvious; it even calls fetch "fetch". Not that that *really* counts for much, but I can pretend.

> Especially I do not interoperate with any SVN repositories
> myself, so I cannot scratch your itch.

I'll look into it, if the config option scheme looks reasonable to you.

> However, I suspect you could help me with a code I've been
> struggling with on-and-off lately.  Do you still remember
> unpack-trees code?

I'm not sure how similar it is these days to the code I worked on (which was called "read-tree", I think), but I'll take a look.

	-Daniel
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