Re: [GSoC update] git-remote-svn: The final one

[Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>]

Hi Stephen,

Stephen Bash writes:
> Ram-
> 
> First, congratulations on making it through GSoC.  I've been avidly following your progress since our off-list discussion at the beginning of the summer, and I'm excited to watch the work continue.

Thank you :)

> > 1. Getting the revision history out of Subversion in a sane format
> > (dumpfile v3).
> >      ...
> > 2. Converting the revision history from dumpfile v3 format into a git
> > fast-import stream.
> >      ...
> > 5. Stitching everything together with a remote helper
> > application.
> >      ...
> > 6. A branch/tag mapper.
> 
> So being selfish, what I care about is an improved method for converting SVN repos to git repos once and never going back.  It sounds to me like the major hurdles remaining there are getting svn-fe to handle dumpfile v3 and handling branches/tags.  Is that correct?

We're doing better than that- when the whole thing is complete, we
should have perfectly seamless two-way compatibility. But yes, you're
right- there are several non-trivial tasks to handle, the top three of
which are:
1. Making svn-fe git-aware (and hence handle dumpfile v3)
2. Writing a fast-export to dumpfilev3 converter
3. Implementing the branch/ tag mapper in an extensible way

Don't worry about it though- we're all working hard on it :)

-- Ram