From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aneesh Kumar Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-svn - bidirection operations between svn and git Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:00:20 +0530 Message-ID: References: <20060216073826.GA12055@hand.yhbt.net> <7v4q2zg2an.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vr763emwx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 16 09:30:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9eX1-0003CA-5s for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:30:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932518AbWBPIaY (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:30:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932520AbWBPIaY (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:30:24 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.206]:57117 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932518AbWBPIaY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:30:24 -0500 Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id k40so88927ugc for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:30:22 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ETj7B4nfBu8T8jOKJZsKs7O0d5vBqtUdDKQgbsShgBD6PbtcouZXulhltoFV43d5hbr6O4A66tMOHqL0Jtnmihu/yQwpmEOyFCjdUM5YhyyLt60UZbtuTZRvMZ0XwouePvZuTfQh5xnqGSPvlSUeDhM2g5kVnvQ7JocUmsGEnsw= Received: by 10.67.23.6 with SMTP id a6mr490681ugj; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:30:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.254.7 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:30:20 -0800 (PST) To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vr763emwx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2/16/06, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Aneesh Kumar writes: > > > On 2/16/06, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > >> How about first adding a contrib/ directory and see how it goes? > > > > I am all for it. Attaching the latest gitview. This include branch and > > tag display support and also the option to save diffs in file. > > Now how do you want to proceed? I could just dump the thing in > say contrib/gitview subdirectory, and then afterwards you could > either keep feeding me patches or sending me pull requests. > > There are two downsides doing things that way: > > (1) you would lose the development history so far; > > (2) if gitview script is the only thing you care about, I > suspect you would want to have that at the project > toplevel, like the "coolest merge ever" gitk merge did, but > that is not what you will be getting. > > Ideally, if we had a proper "subproject" support, I would merge > your project with full development history so far as a > subproject, with your toplevel grafted at contrib/gitview > subdirectory. That would not have neither of the above two > downsides. But that hasn't happened yet (and that was one of > the reasons that I was reluctant initially -- I was hoping that > subproject stuff would materialize sooner). > > For now, I'd do the easy approach (easy for me, that is) with > both of the two downsides. If we end up doing "subproject" > thing, we could rectify things later, if this is OK with you. > It would be fine with me if you just drop the script to contrib/gitview directory. -aneesh