git-svn and submodules, was Re: [PATCH] parse-options: Allow abbreviated options when unambiguous

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > While I have your attention: last weekend, I spoke to a guy from the 
> > ffmpeg project, and he said that the only thing preventing them from 
> > switching to git was the lack of svn:external support...
> > 
> > (Of course I know that it is more difficult than that: ffmpeg itself 
> > is an svn:external of MPlayer, but maybe we can get both of them to 
> > switch ;-)
> > 
> > Do you have any idea when/if you're coming around to add that to 
> > git-svn?
> 
> Soonish, possibly within a next week, even.  I have actually have 
> started a project (using git) that wants to use SVN-hosted repositories 
> directly submodules; so the fact that I'll actually need something like 
> it bodes well for getting it implemented :)