From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2008 Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:03:15 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <200802262356.28971.jnareb@gmail.com> <20080228063621.GR8410@spearce.org> <200802291304.16026.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jakub Narebski , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Robin Rosenberg , git@vger.kernel.org, John Hawley To: Julian Phillips X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 29 14:04:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JV4ua-0002dG-Mm for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:04:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754460AbYB2NDw (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:03:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754529AbYB2NDw (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:03:52 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:37638 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751633AbYB2NDw (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:03:52 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Feb 2008 13:03:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp057) with SMTP; 29 Feb 2008 14:03:50 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19JyAZ8jbpJnC9NQeMlDQ2puipbgO5F4fFHUsMGWe zFDvwysire/1VE X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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