git-svn name

I told somebody about my 'git-svn' program, and of course they asked where they could read about it. Since I don't have a website for it, I Googled for 'git-svn' in hopes that it'd lead me to contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt on gitweb.

To my surprise, I found that git-svn was already packaged for several major distributions. Of course, it turns out that those binary packages are actually of git-svnimport. Oops, maybe I should've checked before naming my own creation git-svn :x

Of course, I still think git-svn is a good name because it describes what the program does in as little text as possible. If anybody has any suggestions that don't require too much typing while keeping the name meaningful, feel free to suggest them.

Would distro package maintainers also be willing to add my git-svn script to their git-svn binary packages when a new release of git is made, too? It's quite different from git-svnimport (see contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt for details).

Dear diary, on Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 05:04:25AM CEST, I got a letter where Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> said that...

I think the primary purpose of the packages separation are dependencies
- not to make the git package depend on svn and such. So I guess the
packagers won't have a problem adding your script to the git-svn package
(concerning SuSE, I won't at least).

* Eric Wong (normalperson@yhbt.net) wrote:

I think your script name is fine. Best way to handle this is with a patch to make your git-svn part of the git-svn packaging.

thanks, -chris