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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>,
	Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-svn and svn:externals, was Re: Hackontest ideas?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:17:21 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807291516120.4631@eeepc-johanness> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080729130823.GB30334@bit.office.eurotux.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Luciano Rocha wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:56:37PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > >  * handling of svn:externals using submodules
> > 
> > The main concern I have is to get the semantics right: AFAICT 
> > svn:externals has _no notion_ of "what is current".  It just _always_ 
> > fetches the HEAD.  Even if you check out an ancient revision in the 
> > "superproject".
> 
> Usually, yes. But you could specify a specific revision with -r <rev>.

I do not see how that helps defining the semantics for git-svn at all.

> With the new 1.5, it is also possible to specify pegged revisions. Much 
> better, because otherwise subversion would require that the path existed 
> in the server in HEAD.

As I already commented, the possibility (and for most svn repositories, 
the likelihood) that nothing is pegged makes this less helpful, either.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-29 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-29  0:01 Hackontest ideas? Petr Baudis
2008-07-29  0:10 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-07-29  5:31   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-07-29  8:35     ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-29  0:34 ` Tarmigan
2008-07-29  0:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29  1:14   ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-29  1:55     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-29  2:02       ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-29  2:12         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-29  1:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29  9:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-29 11:56   ` git-svn and svn:externals, was " Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 12:28     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-29 13:04       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 16:08         ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-29 13:08     ` Luciano Rocha
2008-07-29 13:17       ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-08-03 22:48     ` Eric Wong
2008-08-03 23:24       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-03 23:36         ` Eric Wong

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