Re: Google Summer of Code 2008
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> * Git / Subversion Interoperability
>
> The idea here is implement something in Git that speaks the Subversion
> protocol on the wire, but uses Git as the backend storage. (This would
> be like the existing git-cvsserver.)
>
> There are two potential approaches:
>
> 1. git-svnserver
> 2. write a backend for Subversion
>
> Goal: To be able to access git repository, at minimum read-only, from
> a Subversion client, at least svn CLI.
> Language: Open for proposal.
> Suggested mentors:
> Eric Wong (git-svn author)
> Matthias Urlichs (git-svnimport author)
> Notes: I don't think we could pass it as Subversion SoC project, but
> I guess that we could ask for co-mentor for the Subversion protocol,
> or Subversion backend part of this task.
FWIW: I have a partially implemented python git-svnserver that speaks the
svn:// protocol ... so far I can checkout from a git repos using the svn
client, and not much else. It's been on the backburner for a while, but I
had recently thought about revisiting it - but getting someone else to do
the implementation works too ;)
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Julian
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