Re: status of git interop with other VCS

Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:

Hi Paul,

Paul Wise wrote:

quoted

svn: there was a gsoc project for this but it was never merged:

http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SoC2011Projects#Remote_helper_for_Subversion_and_git-svn

I wouldn't give up on that yet. What is the status of fa/remote-helper?

An excerpt from recent "What's cooking":

    * fa/remote-svn (2012-08-28) 16 commits
     - Add a test script for remote-svn
     - remote-svn: add marks-file regeneration
     - Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing
     - remote-svn: add incremental import
     - remote-svn: Activate import/export-marks for fast-import
     - Create a note for every imported commit containing svn metadata
     - vcs-svn: add fast_export_note to create notes
     - Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls
     - remote-svn, vcs-svn: Enable fetching to private refs
     - When debug==1, start fast-import with "--stats" instead of "--quiet"
     - Add documentation for the 'bidi-import' capability of remote-helpers
     - Connect fast-import to the remote-helper via pipe, adding 'bidi-import' capability
     - Add argv_array_detach and argv_array_free_detached
     - Add svndump_init_fd to allow reading dumps from arbitrary FDs
     - Add git-remote-testsvn to Makefile and .gitignore
     - Implement a remote helper for svn in C
     (this branch is used by fa/vcs-svn.)

     A GSoC project.  Looked promising.
     Waiting for comments from mentors and stakeholders.


    * fa/vcs-svn (2012-08-28) 4 commits
     - vcs-svn: remove repo_tree
     - vcs-svn/svndump: rewrite handle_node(), begin|end_revision()
     - vcs-svn/svndump: restructure node_ctx, rev_ctx handling
     - svndump: move struct definitions to .h
     (this branch uses fa/remote-svn.)

     A GSoC project.  Looked promising.
     Waiting for comments from mentors and stakeholders.