From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:49:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-as-svn: subversion frontend server for git repository
Message-ID: <xmqqy4tsloxs.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140909111903.GA13137@seldon>

Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org> writes:

> 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?