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?

... 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.



-- Ram

I've started looking at the first piece of the pipeline, reading from a
remote subversion URL. I stumbled upon rsvndump[2], which is
GPLv3+ licensed and promises to produce a Subversion dump from
a remote repository. This could be piped to my utility,
svn-dump-fast-export[3], to produce suitable input for git fast-import.
I believe this would address the first two components of Ram's.
proposal and allow more focus to be given to the interesting ones.
That's presuming that I have a feature-complete release by the time
the GSoC project begins.

My project is currently under a two-clause BSD style license.
This is primarily because the two projects it derives from were
distributed under the same license, rather than any preference.

As I've included a reference to my project, I'll emphasise that it is a
work in progress, with a handful of known bugs.
At present, symlinks are damaged on update and some files
disappear late in the history of my test repository.
I'm planning a rewrite of the parser once symlinks are complete.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/142623
[2] http://rsvndump.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://github.com/barrbrain/svn-dump-fast-export/