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Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-as-svn: subversion frontend server for git repository

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 9, 2014, 16:49 UTC
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Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org> writes:
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> Some time ago I complained [1] about troubles using Git
> on a project with high ratio of non-programmers.
> ...
> Then, a lost'n'forgotten git_svn_server [4] was found.
> ...
Interesting.
> Current limitations:
> ...
>   * You must not do 'inverted merges'. Old HEAD must be reachable from
>     new HEAD by first-parent traversal.

I am not sure what you mean by this to properly assess how significant this limitation is. Care to draw a simple picture?

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