From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-as-svn: subversion frontend server for git repository Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:49:03 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20140909111903.GA13137@seldon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, bozaro@yandex.ru To: Marat Radchenko X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 09 18:49:13 2014 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 1XRObQ-0004Jb-OI for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:49:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754300AbaIIQtI (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:49:08 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:62707 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753426AbaIIQtH (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:49:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06FA1372EF; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:49:06 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=r3Xgzp/oNyTrwBNJKSTDfltRI2U=; b=TJlgn8 RgDl4MMBGwciOjrYLdz5ibGCccEJnSOtUHMEaRhN7uVbPN5M4+VRrxHvCCl6F1so 1c9P865lkydLYvQc3TNg89ZHOiRYSNA/HRpRj0uecDDUoRzpVyQ+zTHiLXxp3eh6 FGPQGBil902P5t8N+XEi+idlLVupqSjPR2aFY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=wnVHOwHi7bdq0o4Nin0TqAunLTSXpL9j Jjazrk47suXzd9H5Mc0sNqCWApFgYQj9T7c5LiaPHYzpqjX7eitZlJTdAH6s95kd rKgLv2GsuBNgmgAkKnfb405X0QvW7SB59ISeGDsio8AFQaJWhh0mpat/JetPi9q7 sjVt0fTDSxY= Received: from pb-smtp0. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8D3372EE; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:49:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 73530372ED; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:49:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20140909111903.GA13137@seldon> (Marat Radchenko's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:19:04 +0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 35D008CE-3841-11E4-8E10-BD2DC4D60FE0-77302942!pb-smtp0.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Marat Radchenko writes: > Some time ago I complained [1] about troubles using Git > on a project with high ratio of non-programmers. > ... > Then, a lost'n'forgotten git_svn_server [4] was found. > ... Interesting. > Current limitations: > ... > * You must not do 'inverted merges'. Old HEAD must be reachable from > new HEAD by first-parent traversal. I am not sure what you mean by this to properly assess how significant this limitation is. Care to draw a simple picture?