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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New type of remote helpers
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:13:04 -0500
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Hi,

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 13:33, Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> wrote:

>> To test this
>> approach I created a simple remote helper for svn.
>
> I guess it suffices as a POC, but I'd have preferred to see
> collaboration with the people working on git-remote-svn instead
> (cc-ed).

Just a quick note: if this approach gets a working remote helper
in the hands of users faster, I'm all for it.

My only concern is the name: if it is not compatible the planned
remote helper from the summer of code project, they should probably
get different names.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but the main
differences are:

 - this is scripted and uses local svn working copy operations; the
   soc project is in C and uses remote access ("replay")

 - this uses the nice ls-remote output etc.  Ram, do you think this
   would be easy to use for remote-svn?

So, not many differences.  Maybe we can standardize the interface
and consider them alternate implementations?