Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Julian Phillips wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > * Git / Subversion Interoperability
> > 
> >  The idea here is implement something in Git that speaks the Subversion
> >  protocol on the wire, but uses Git as the backend storage. (This would
> >  be like the existing git-cvsserver.)
> > 
> >  There are two potential approaches:
> > 
> >   1. git-svnserver
> >   2. write a backend for Subversion
> > 
> >  Goal: To be able to access git repository, at minimum read-only, from
> >  a Subversion client, at least svn CLI.
> >  Language: Open for proposal.
> >  Suggested mentors:
> >    Eric Wong (git-svn author)
> >    Matthias Urlichs (git-svnimport author)
> >  Notes: I don't think we could pass it as Subversion SoC project, but
> >  I guess that we could ask for co-mentor for the Subversion protocol,
> >  or Subversion backend part of this task.
> 
> FWIW: I have a partially implemented python git-svnserver that speaks the
> svn:// protocol ... so far I can checkout from a git repos using the svn
> client, and not much else.  It's been on the backburner for a while, but I had
> recently thought about revisiting it - but getting someone else to do the
> implementation works too ;)

How about publishing it, so other people can take up the ball?

Ciao,
Dscho