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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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Stephen Bash wrote:

> For those of us interested but out of the loop, does this mean you
> have a working example where I can point it at a SVN repo and see
> what happens?  Having done our SVN to Git conversion last year, I
> know our repo has a lot of the common SVN screw cases (non-branching
> copies, partial merges, mis-merges, *lots* of retagging, changes
> committed to tags, etc.) so if it's relatively easy to setup a test
> I'm happy to run one.

Thanks.  It's very bare-bones at the moment: it just imports each
revision as a whole tree, with no branch and merge tracking at all.
So it would be very interesting to get this basic stuff out into the
wild and then add some code implementing those things for you to break
on top of it.