Re: Git / Subversion Interoperability

[Bruno Cesar Ribas <ribas@c3sl.ufpr.br>]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:34:26AM +0100, Karl Hasselström wrote:
> On 2007-03-23 01:36:11 +0000, Julian Phillips wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> >
> > > I thought about the properties, but didn't bother to write
> > > anything on that subject as we may just be able to say "look,
> > > properties are not supported in git-svnserver, so don't try to use
> > > them".
> >
> > Indeed. That's what I was aiming at with the the last sentence (not
> > very clearly unfortunately). It would be nice if the server could
> > tell the client that properties are not supported ... but I doubt
> > that it can, since they are fundamental part of Subversion.
> >
> > In particular it's how the client finds out about things like
> > symlinks and line ending conversion. It may be necessary to provide
> > some basic support for some of the properties in the svn:...
> > namespace in order for the Subversion repo access library not to
> > refuse to talk to the git server.
> 
> Maybe the pragmatic solution would be to have built-in handling of a
> few properties such as svn:executable and svn:ignore that have git
> equivalents, and just emulate all other properties with files.

My idea is to write the git-svnserver!!! I think it will be easier.

To begin coding, i plan to write basic functions [updade,commit,checkout,
copy,merge,...] then start to implement most "complex" instructions.

As spearce said before, the idea of this is to migrate from svn to git
without many trouble in transition, so basic can work as the initial thought.

> 
> -- 
> Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
>       www.treskal.com/kalle

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