Subject: Re: fa/remote-svn (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2012, #01; Tue, 2))

From: Stephen Bash <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:16:20 -0400 (EDT)

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Nieder" <[email-masked]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2012 4:30:01 AM
> Subject: Re: fa/remote-svn (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2012, #01; Tue, 2))
> 
> > > * fa/remote-svn (2012-09-19) 16 commits
> > > - Add a test script for remote-svn
> > > - remote-svn: add marks-file regeneration
> > > - Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing
> > > - remote-svn: add incremental import
> > > - remote-svn: Activate import/export-marks for fast-import
> > > - Create a note for every imported commit containing svn metadata
> > > - vcs-svn: add fast_export_note to create notes
> > > - Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls
> > > - remote-svn, vcs-svn: Enable fetching to private refs
> > > - When debug==1, start fast-import with "--stats" instead of
> > > "--quiet"
> > > - Add documentation for the 'bidi-import' capability of
> > > remote-helpers
> > > - Connect fast-import to the remote-helper via pipe, adding
> > > 'bidi-import' capability
> > > - Add argv_array_detach and argv_array_free_detached
> > > - Add svndump_init_fd to allow reading dumps from arbitrary FDs
> > > - Add git-remote-testsvn to Makefile
> > > - Implement a remote helper for svn in C
> > > (this branch is used by fa/vcs-svn.)
> > >
> > > A GSoC project.
> > > Waiting for comments from mentors and stakeholders.
> >
> > I have reviewed this topic and am happy with the design and
> > implementation.  I support this topic for inclusion.
> 
> Thanks!  I'll try moving the tests to the first patch and trying it
> and hopefully send out a branch to pull tomorrow.
> 
> If I don't send anything tomorrow, that's probably a sign that I never
> will, so since I like the goal of the series I guess it would be a
> kind of implied ack.

I seemed to have missed the GSoC wrap up conversation... (links happily
accepted)  Looking at the big picture (as much as I can remember) it
seems to me the missing pieces now are branch mapping (lots of hard
work), and possibly parts (all?) of the "push to SVN" functionality?

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Stephen