Re: git-svn does not seems to work with crlf convertion enabled.

Hi,

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:57:54PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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Note that you will have to do your digging using msysGit (i.e. the 
developer's pack, not the installer for plain Git), since git-svn will 
be removed from the next official "Windows Git" release, due to lack 
of fixers.

  is there any other problem with git-svn on Windows than the CRLF
issue? I couldn't find anything significant in the issue tracker.

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=120&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Component%20Owner%20Summary

It is also frustrating that 

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=83&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Component%20Owner%20Summary
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=103&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Component%20Owner%20Summary
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=129&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Component%20Owner%20Summary

are probably the same issue.  I cannot only blame the users for not really 
looking if their issue has been reported yet; there are 32 open issues in 
msysGit right now, number increasing, so it gets quite confusing.

I once switched off the issue tracker, because I was the only one who took 
at least a little bit of care of it.  Due to list consensus, it was turned 
back on -- against my will.

Guess who takes care of it right now?

Exactly.  So I will soon be switching it off again, I think, because there 
are few more useless things than an unmonitored issue tracker.

  If not, why do you want to drop git-svn from Windows Git? It seems 
that the CRLF issue has trivial workaround to set autocrlf=false; this 
will make git-svn-tracked repositories useful only on Windows, but I'd 
bet this is fine for large majority of Windows git-svn users?

If it was so trivial, why does nobody use it?

Oh, and git-svn is slow, too.

And _noone_ of those competent Windows git-svn users seemed fit or willing 
to do anything about git-svn, not even the simplest of issues.

If you want to do something about it, go ahead.  But I have no inclination 
of hearing from any Windows user about git-svn again, ever.

Ciao,
Dscho