Re: git-svn bridge and line endings

[Lucian Smith <lucianoelsmitho@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Julian Phillips
<julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
> On 23/08/2016 17:14, Lucian Smith wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the quick responses!
>>
>> My situation is that the git side is entirely whatever github.org is
>> running; presumably the latest stable version?  They provide a URL for
>> repositories hosted there that can be accessed by an SVN
>> client--somewhere on github is the 'git-svn bridge' (as I understand
>> it): something that receives SVN requests, translates them to
>> git-speak, and replies with what SVN expects.
>
>
> The ability to use a Subversion client is functionality provided by GitHub,
> and not native to git itself.  So unless someone for the appropriate GitHub
> team happens to read this thread I expect there isn't much we can do to
> help.  I don't know if they've even provided any real detail of how they
> implemented the bridge.

All right, that makes sense.  And yeah, it was hard to find any
information about the bridge, which is why I ended up here...

>> There is indeed a .gitattributes file in the repository, but the SVN
>> client doesn't know what to do with it.  My hope was that something in
>> the bridge code, that translated SVN requests to git and back, could
>> take the SVN request, "Please give me this file; I'm on Windows" look
>> at the .gitattributes file in the repository, and hand out a file with
>> CR/LF's in it.  Conversely, when SVN tells git "Here is the new
>> version of the file to check in," the bridge could look at the file,
>> realize it had CR/LF's in it, look at the .gitattributes file to know
>> if it needed to be converted, and then convert it appropriately.
>>
>> I can imagine a full-blown bridge that could even translate the SVN
>> EOL propset back and forth appropriately, but I'm not sure if going
>> that far is necessary and/or helpful.
>>
>> I don't know if this is the right mailing list for that particular bit
>> of software, but it at least seemed like a good place to start.  Thank
>> you!
>
>
> Supported properties are listed here:
> https://help.github.com/articles/subversion-properties-supported-by-github/
>
> You'll need to ask GitHub to implement support for the svn:eol-style
> property I expect.

Thanks for finding that!  That even has an 'ask a human' button, which
I expect is my next step.

> Might be easier to just use Tortoise Git?

It may be!  But thanks for the responses anyway.

-Lucian