From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Nikolaus Demmel <nikolaus@nikolaus-demmel.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-svn show-externals and svn version
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:46:53 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sjhotzhj.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B8386D7-3C01-4A58-A7AB-9AA43BB45572@nikolaus-demmel.de>
Nikolaus Demmel <nikolaus@nikolaus-demmel.de> writes:
> I feel a bit like I am talking to myself, but I see from the high
> traffic on this list that people are busy doing great things :-). I will
> write anyway in case someone interested in git-svn listens.
>
> Is there an appropriate place to file these kinds of feature/enhancement
> requests?
>
> So I've investigated the matter a bit further. Turns out in the
> subversion SWIG language bindings there is an API function that parses
> svn:externals definitions for you. See [1] for a recent (minimal) change
> to make this function available in python. I guess supporting Perl
> requires equally minimal changes. I haven't attempted it myself since I
> know neither Perl nor SWIG.
>
> How could this be used in git-svn show-externals? As layed out before, I
> believe that the current output for the svn1.5 syntax is inherently
> broken and we should not worry about backwards compatibility for
> that. To maintain backwards compatibility with the output for the old
> format and to give a canonical, easy to parse, output for any external
> definition, I suggest sticking to the current format, just inserting the
> parsed definition at the appropriate place with relative URLs completely
> resolved to absolute ones.
[...]
> Thoughts, comments, opinions?
Perhaps better support for svn:externals would be a good project for
Git in Google Summer of Code 2012? You could write a proposal, see
* GSoC 2012 application process
Message-ID: <20120302091114.GA3984@sigill.intra.peff.net>
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192014
* [RFC] "Remote helper for Subversion" project
Message-ID: <1330777646-28381-1-git-send-email-davidbarr@google.com>
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192106
* https://github.com/peff/git/wiki/SoC-2012-Ideas
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Jakub Narebski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-04 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-19 18:53 git-svn show-externals and svn version Nikolaus Demmel
2012-02-21 11:14 ` Nikolaus Demmel
2012-02-22 15:27 ` Nikolaus Demmel
2012-03-04 10:46 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2012-03-07 9:39 ` Andreas Stricker
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