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Re: GSoC intro

From
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date
Mar 28, 2012, 08:09 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Hm, and there are still some general questions:
>> What about git-svn? Whats wrong with it? (I haven't used it) I saw the huge
>> perl script, this looks a little extreme ;). But it provides bi-directional
>> access?!
>
> The main problem with git-svn.perl is that it's hard to maintain or
> extend.  See also: David Barr's LCA talk [1].

git-svn's also pretty annoying to use (e.g. the way dcommit rebases anything you push to svn, which makes juggling local git branches problematic; ugh)... :/

-miles
-- 
.Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.
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  6. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 26, 2012
  7. Florian AchleitnerMar 27, 2012
  8. GSOC Proposal draft: git-remote-svnFlorian Achleitner, Apr 2, 2012
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