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Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] Support fetching from foreign VCSes

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 12, 2009, 19:09 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0901122007070.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> Maybe fast-import should be able to run with a bi-directional connection 
> to its input, so it can acknowledge checkpoints?
Whoa.

fast-import was first and foremost a very simple way to get stuff done. Is it absolutely necessary to complicate that?

I mean, I don't know about git-svn, but shouldn't it be relatively easy to use fast-import to import from Subversion once the information is extracted from Subversion?

Ciao, Dscho

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