Re: [GSoC update] git-remote-svn: Week 1

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: May 10, 2010, 08:29 UTC
Message-ID: <i2gf3271551005100129s63b14129r5207cd177881c3ba@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <66B5CC1B-044A-483E-88D2-DCB0785E3ABE@cordelta.com>

Hi David,

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:08 AM, David Michael Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com> wrote:

> I was working on a slow but reliable alternate implementation for
> validation and regression testing. So far, it seems really hard to write
> anything reliable atop Subversion.

Okay. I won't really touch that because I'm not very fluent in Perl.

> I know its bad form, but I've done what I promise is the last history
> manipulation on my public repository. Now that the code is at a point
> that is quite functional and ready to receive contributions, I've signed
> off on my own commits and reviewed the history.

On a related note, we might also want to benchmark it against alternatives and make the benchmarks public for the 1.0 release.

> On that note, do you think I should rewrite my history to include
> 'signed-off' or any other cleanup before I start accepting patches?

Yeah, I don't think we should have a problem with non-FF updates, atleast until the project reaches 1.0 and becomes more public.

-- Ram