From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Subject: Re: [RFC] "Remote helper for Subversion" project Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:28:52 +0530 Message-ID: References: <1330777646-28381-1-git-send-email-davidbarr@google.com> <20120304075424.GI14725@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Barr , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org, Sverre Rabbelier , Dmitry Ivankov , Sam Vilain , Stephen Bash To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 27 05:59:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SCNZU-0008Cz-PT for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:59:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754843Ab2C0D7O convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:59:14 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:46122 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752809Ab2C0D7O convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:59:14 -0400 Received: by wgbdr13 with SMTP id dr13so4454552wgb.1 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:59:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GSBiYFRw4L2cwvWwbMhKzLs/HoXfpsI8Sk2L3Km3w7E=; b=PVfAEDTLs07dbiIeGoaQ6uUkwtJutvgIcuBv+xivWDZx1TUeo96Ch4jGth5wJworvh AdcAfdGm7wchsowpDeCc0KhlC60buv3Cm4HlB0bBGJpbWuTLjdPdoCAmdM/IjDdt2Eub Fjkch2DqA0/GEx5wiMA8QlSYFf2soSnSnLu4AxgtaYwY882xYSPgxtmSpEEjkvrhRRyy TpJ8EFwKna7WJT+b0XoFtJluJ57LcHS+cMQPLDyWf0ZMH/84wVxUfsAsLrREEvkK2fxn j0A9flqwxeMt6Q/ZyaZUC3UsD2HzunNi7+o8WhNMQ+kyL0eWpmo6aaTBHRYRl0At9oT5 Qg0w== Received: by 10.180.97.41 with SMTP id dx9mr23779283wib.9.1332820752743; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.11.199 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:58:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120304075424.GI14725@burratino> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > David Barr wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:27 PM, David Barr w= rote: >>> + >>> +* Getting an Git-to-SVN converter merged. > > Probably could fill a summer in itself. =C2=A0In previous starts I th= ink > there was some complexity creep. :/ > > =C2=A0http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170290 > =C2=A0http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170551 I've been meaning to finish this off for sometime now- probably as an SoC project this summer? >>> + >>> +* Building the remote helper itself. >>> + >>> +Goal: Build a full-featured bi-directional `git-remote-svn` and ge= t it >>> + =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0merged into upstream Git. > > Sure would be neat. ;-) =C2=A0Another nice piece to build would be br= anch > tracking / follow_parent heuristics. This doesn't sound awfully complicated; if the Git -> SVN converter gets merged early on, I might get a chance to work on this as well. Ram