Re: native-git-svn: A Summer of Code 2010 proposal

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On Mar 26, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[Please don't cull people from cc]

I didn't intend to, I wasn't on the mailing list before and the message was not a reply to but a new message with the same subject.

Would cython meet the needs of increasing the speed of the python code
without requiring a rewrite?

Actually, I've subsequently decided that this is unnecessary. Besides,
I'm writing in C mainly for portability to msysgit (Windows). Could
you please look at the updated version of my project proposal?
I work at a company with a LDAP server that I can look up the svn username to get real name and email address. This way I don't have to manually maintain a
svn authors file.

I'm torn on how the current system handles this,  I like all tags to
be tags, and
that if a tag had a branch like behavior (bad SVN users!), that a branch exists
for it, with the tag pointing to its branches head.

This shouldn't be a problem to implement/ improve at the end of my
GSoC term. However, it's important that I don't lose focus and
concentrate on the core task at hand for GSoC, which is more about
getting native support for SVN than anything else. I have neither the
expertise or time (one GSoC term) to build a fantastic importer and
get native support: I will be re-using several parts of existing
importers for the purpose of the GSoC.

Clean documented locations for adding the calling of these kinds of addons is all that's needed, then us other folks can chip in too with the bits like the LDAP support.

Support for SVN's blank folders. Some of the old build systems I have used need the blank folders, so I have to create to make the build work :-(

Okay, this should be simple enough to implement. Thank you for pointing it out.

One of my SVN repositories using the current system fails to import that
repository is missing a revision in its SVN history.  In other words
the SVN repo
has corrupted history the current git-svn will fail to import the repository.

I'll keep this in mind when designing svn-fast-import: a certain
revision's checkout can fail, and a mechanism to bail the user out of
such a situation can be helpful. Again, I can't promise that this'll
be completed by the end of the GSoC term, but I will make it easy
enough to write the functionality in later on.

If you want me to test your work on a hairy repository with corrupt history and
thousands of branches, I'll do that for you.

Thanks! That'll be wonderful. If my proposal gets accepted, I
certainly will contact you (and several others) for testing, once the
core task of the GSoC is complete.

But working at a company with lots of history in SVN makes me passionate
about the SVN integration in git :-)

Good to know. Thank you for your support :)

-- Ram

Happy hacking!
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