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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GSoC 2010
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:41:21 +0100
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Heya,

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 17:10, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> Also note that the current helper protocol is definitely insufficient to
> replace git-svn ('export' isn't actually specified, although I think
> everyone who guesses how it works guesses the same thing),

I've finally started implementing this yesterday.

> and the
> transport code needs to be extended to handle the "dcommit" situation
> (when you push a commit, the state that you see on the remote changes
> based on the semantics of what you sent, but it does not change to have
> the same hash as what you pushed).

So basically what you want to do is after you push, automagically do a
'git reset --hard @{u}'? That could be handled by a specific response
from the helper to the 'export'/'push' command, perhaps it could list
which refs need to be updated?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier