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From: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, robbat2@gentoo.org,
	bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca, jrnieder@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Fix git-svn for SVN 1.7
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 02:54:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5017AB63.6080909@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1ujsl8ut.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

It just doesn't matter.

Why are we arguing over which solution will be 4% better two years from now,
or if my commits are formatted perfectly, when tremendous amounts of basic
work to be done improving git-svn?  The code is undocumented, lacking unit
tests, difficult to understand and riddled with bugs.

Either solution would be a vast improvement.  The most important thing is that
one of them actually gets done.  If both solutions offer a huge improvement,
do it the way the person actually writing the code wants to do it.  It'll be
more enjoyable for them, they'll be more likely to complete the work, and more
likely to stick around and code some more.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-31  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-28  9:47 Fix git-svn for SVN 1.7 Michael G. Schwern
2012-07-28  9:47 ` [PATCH 1/8] SVN 1.7 will truncate "not-a%40{0}" to just "not-a" Michael G. Schwern
2012-07-28 14:16   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-28 19:32     ` Michael G Schwern
2012-10-09  8:41       ` [PATCH/RFC] svn test: escape peg revision separator using empty peg rev Jonathan Nieder
2012-10-09  9:47         ` Michael J Gruber
2012-10-09 10:19           ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-10-10 20:37             ` Eric Wong
2012-10-10 21:02               ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-10-10 21:31                 ` Eric Wong
2012-10-10 21:42                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-10-10 22:16                     ` Eric Wong
2012-10-10 22:33               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-28  9:47 ` [PATCH 2/8] Fix typo in test Michael G. Schwern
2012-07-28  9:47 ` [PATCH 3/8] Improve our URL canonicalization to be more like SVN 1.7's Michael G. Schwern
2012-07-28  9:47 ` [PATCH 4/8] Replace hand rolled URL escapes with canonicalization Michael G. Schwern
2012-07-28  9:47 ` [PATCH 5/8] Canonicalize earlier in a couple spots Michael G. Schwern
2012-07-28  9:47 ` [PATCH 6/8] Add function to append a path to a URL Michael G. Schwern
2012-07-28  9:47 ` [PATCH 7/8] Turn on canonicalization on newly minted URLs Michael G. Schwern
2012-10-06 19:24   ` [PATCH/RFC] test: work around SVN 1.7 mishandling of svn:special changes Jonathan Nieder
2012-10-09 10:12     ` [PATCH/RFC v2] git svn: " Jonathan Nieder
2012-10-10 20:11       ` Eric Wong
2012-10-10 20:47         ` [PATCH v3] " Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-28  9:47 ` [PATCH 8/8] Remove some ad hoc canonicalizations Michael G. Schwern
2012-07-30 20:38 ` Fix git-svn for SVN 1.7 Eric Wong
2012-07-30 21:10   ` Michael G Schwern
2012-07-30 22:15     ` Eric Wong
2012-07-31  1:04       ` Michael G Schwern
2012-07-31  2:18         ` Eric Wong
2012-07-31  4:30           ` Michael G Schwern
2012-07-31  6:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-31  9:54     ` Michael G Schwern [this message]
2012-07-31 20:01       ` Eric Wong
2012-07-31 23:05         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-31 23:28           ` Michael G Schwern
2012-07-31 23:24         ` Michael G Schwern
2012-08-01 21:30           ` Eric Wong
2012-08-02 10:31 ` Eric Wong
2012-08-02 16:07   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-08-02 18:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-02 19:50       ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-08-02 22:10         ` Eric Wong
2012-08-21  4:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-21 21:03         ` Eric Wong
2012-08-21 21:34           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-02 20:51     ` Eric Wong
2012-08-02 21:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-02 21:42         ` Eric Wong
2012-08-02 21:55           ` Eric Wong
2012-08-02 22:05             ` Junio C Hamano

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