Re: Subversion integration with git

Hi,

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I think it falls very close to the native-git-svn Google SoC
project[1], and if you are able to share what you have I'm sure
Ramkumar (I hope you don't mind me CC'ing you, and that I spelled your
name right) would appreciate having a look.

Yes. Thank you for CC'ing me, Erik.

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Is it worthwhile to start a new project - or would it be better to grok the internals of existing projects and try to make them scale?

However, if my proposal gets accepted, I
could work with you to get it integrated into the remote helper that
I'll be building. Depending on the complexity of your project, this
might only be possible at the end of my GSoC term.

From Ramkumar's proposal[1]:

The distinct components I plan to write are:

2. An exporter for SVN repositories, which will extract all the
relevant revision history and metadata to import into Git.
3. A remote helper for Git that takes the data from this SVN exporter,
and uses git-fast-import to create corresponding commits in Git.

The scope of my project roughly corresponds to these two components.

With regard to licensing issues, I opted to work only with import/export streams so that no linking is required.

In the context of GSoC, I am studying my final year of a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science x 2) at Australian National University, Canberra.
As for FOSS contributions, the last time I released something was when I helped port the iBurst wireless broadband driver (USB interface) [2] a few years ago; the demands of life vs. one's passion.