Re: Subversion integration with git

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2010, 14:29 UTC
Message-ID: <f3271551003300729i340ee031r3151cad845e299be@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <52A6E51B-058C-4B06-A271-26219B388BE7@cordelta.com>

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:35 PM, David Michael Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com> wrote:

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> I've started looking at the first piece of the pipeline, reading from a
> remote subversion URL. I stumbled upon rsvndump[2], which is
> GPLv3+ licensed and promises to produce a Subversion dump from
> a remote repository. This could be piped to my utility,
> svn-dump-fast-export[3], to produce suitable input for git fast-import.

In the latest version of my proposal, I've proposed to write a mirroring tool which will basically be a stripped down version of svnsync [1]. For testing, I therefore recommend that you use svnsync instead of rsvndump because the former is included in the official source tree. If however, you do a comparison and find that rsvndump is actually a better alternative, let me know.

> I believe this would address the first two components of Ram's.
> proposal and allow more focus to be given to the interesting ones.
> That's presuming that I have a feature-complete release by the time
> the GSoC project begins.

That's fantastic! I suspect you haven't looked at the latest revision of my proposal. Since Gmane doesn't seem to have indexed it, I just sent you a mail off the list.

-- Ram