Hi, I suspect that people are confused about what I'm exactly doing and how to review/ test all the work since I've been posting updates in rapid bursts, and writing relatively short emails. For a change, this email is going to be (relatively) long and detailed since things are finally starting to take shape. So, the project involves the following components: 1. The remote helper application or remote-svn (90% complete): There's nothing much to see here; I just stripped down remote-curl.c and posted a remote-svn.c along with the relevant Makefile rule to build it a few weeks ago [1]. What this needs: Some infrastructure to do the importing/ exporting in $GIT_ROOT/vcs-svn/. 2. David's SVN exporter or svn-fe (80% complete): This is quite an excellent piece of software for turning an SVN dumpfile into a stream that git-fast-import can import [2]. David has validated it against 940,000 commits of the ASF repository, and it works perfectly. It's 80% complete because there's some room for refactoring certain parts, and cosmetic beautification before the merge into `next`. I work on both `master` and a special `git-merge` branch specifically for merging it into git.git. Jonathan has suggested that two separate components should be merged into git.git: svn-fe itself as an independent program in $GIT_ROOT/contrib/ and the `git-merge` branch for creating infrastructure for the remote helper in $GIT_ROOT/vcs-svn/. We are currently preparing a series for the former, while the latter was just merged into pu this week [3]. 3. The RA SVN Client or svnclient_ra (15% complete): This piece of sofware will be invoked by the remote helper and will use the libsvn API (yuck!) to contact a remote server and produce output in dumpfile format for the exporter component. Jonas has written a software called rsvndump which already does this [4], but the codebase is too clunky and outdated (it doesn't use the replay API); I'm therefore attempting a complete rewrite, and you can find the latest update in a patch in the second part of this series. Note that the replay API forces a server version >= 1.5 restriction, but Sverre and I are alright with this. The cost of backward compatibility is a LOT of ugly code (seen in rsvndump). 4. The importer (0% complete): I'll probably only get started with this after the mid-term evaluations. [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/147716 [2]: http://github.com/artagnon/svn-dump-fast-export [3]: Commit 9c55c48 [4]: http://github.com/jgehring/rsvndump -- Ram Ramkumar Ramachandra (1): Add a skeleton RA SVN client Makefile | 2 + delta_editor.c | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ delta_editor.h | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ svnclient_ra.c | 135 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 315 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Makefile create mode 100644 delta_editor.c create mode 100644 delta_editor.h create mode 100644 svnclient_ra.c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html