Re: native-git-svn: A Summer of Code 2010 proposal

> Avery Pennarun wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
> 
> >> The following resources are relevant to the project:
> >> 1. git_remote_helpers/git/git.py is a minimalistic remote helper
> >> written by Sverre. I plan to extend this as much as possible before
> >> rewriting it in C.
> >
> > Are you sure you really want to rewrite git-svn in C?  svn is so slow
> > that interpreted vs. native performance is unlikely to be an issue.
> > git-svn is probably not going to be needed on embedded systems where
> > installing python or perl is a problem.  And managing the data
> > structures in a high-level language should be a lot easier.
> 
> Hmm.  Sverre discussed why this is more about a redesign of svn
> interop support than a C reimplementation of git-svn.  I wouldn’t mind
> if at the end of the summer, all we have is some working Python code.
> Still, it would have to be rewritten in C or Perl before msysgit could
> use it unless some hero packages a Python interpreter for them.