Are there any git-svn users out there who would be seriously hurt if I
dropped support for using the svn command-line client in git-svn?
The API of the SVN:: libraries seem to be relatively stable these days
and are *much* faster than the command-line client. I plan on
maintaining compatibility with version 1.1 of the SVN libraries for at
least another year; or more if it's not a big problem.
Lately, I've introduced support for authentication and connecting to
repositories with limited read permissions, as well as reading from the
config files in ~/.subversion; so everything that could be done with
the command-line client backend can be done with the libraries, too.
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"Eric" == Eric Wong [off-list ref] writes:
Eric> The API of the SVN:: libraries seem to be relatively stable these days
Eric> and are *much* faster than the command-line client. I plan on
Eric> maintaining compatibility with version 1.1 of the SVN libraries for at
Eric> least another year; or more if it's not a big problem.
For a while, I would have been upset. I was building SVN from fink, even
though I was using a private Perl as /usr/local/bin/perl. And since the Perl
bindings have to be built when the SVN package is built, it was being built
against the core Perl, which I didn't use, so I couldn't use the SVN bindings.
Now, I'm building SVN from darwinports, which builds its own Perl, and I have
~/bin/git-svn wrap the /opt/git/bin/git-svn passing it the /opt/local/bin/perl
instead of the first Perl in the path. And it all just works. I suppose
I could have done that before too. :)
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Eric Wong [off-list ref] wrote:
Are there any git-svn users out there who would be seriously hurt if I
dropped support for using the svn command-line client in git-svn?
One additional comment is that the dcommit command (much favored over
'git svn commit') does not currently work with the command-line client.
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