Re: git-svn does not seems to work with crlf convertion enabled.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 6, 2008, 12:43 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808061436310.9611@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080806111545.GD32184@machine.or.cz>

Hi,

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:57:54PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Note that you will have to do your digging using msysGit (i.e. the 
> > developer's pack, not the installer for plain Git), since git-svn will 
> > be removed from the next official "Windows Git" release, due to lack 
> > of fixers.
> 
>   is there any other problem with git-svn on Windows than the CRLF
> issue? I couldn't find anything significant in the issue tracker.

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=120&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Component%20Owner%20Summary

It is also frustrating that

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=83&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Component%20Owner%20Summary http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=103&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Component%20Owner%20Summary http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=129&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Component%20Owner%20Summary

are probably the same issue. I cannot only blame the users for not really looking if their issue has been reported yet; there are 32 open issues in msysGit right now, number increasing, so it gets quite confusing.

I once switched off the issue tracker, because I was the only one who took at least a little bit of care of it. Due to list consensus, it was turned back on -- against my will.

Guess who takes care of it right now?

Exactly. So I will soon be switching it off again, I think, because there are few more useless things than an unmonitored issue tracker.

>   If not, why do you want to drop git-svn from Windows Git? It seems 
> that the CRLF issue has trivial workaround to set autocrlf=false; this 
> will make git-svn-tracked repositories useful only on Windows, but I'd 
> bet this is fine for large majority of Windows git-svn users?

If it was so trivial, why does nobody use it?

Oh, and git-svn is slow, too.

And _noone_ of those competent Windows git-svn users seemed fit or willing to do anything about git-svn, not even the simplest of issues.

If you want to do something about it, go ahead. But I have no inclination of hearing from any Windows user about git-svn again, ever.

Ciao, Dscho