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Subject: Re: [GSoC] Git to SVN bridge
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

>        I'm a little more worried about the mapper- I'm finding it hard
> to imagine a fast-import stream that contains subdirectories
> (branches/*) as opposed to head refs.  Any idea how we'll achieve
> that?

Shouldn't it be very simple?  All you need is a filter that understands
the fast-import syntax and can convert

	commit refs/heads/topic
	...
	M 100644 inline "foo/bar"

to

	commit toplevel
	...
	M 100644 inline "branches/topic/foo/bar"

and

	ls topic@1 "foo/bar"

to

	ls r1 "branches/topic/foo/bar"