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From: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail•com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail•com>,
	David Michael Barr <b@rr-dav•id.au>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/5] GSOC: prepare svndump for branch detection
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:35:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1701463.olu8UUX9CV@flomedio> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7gsum4oc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sunday 19 August 2012 23:57:23 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail•com> writes:
> >> This change makes me uncomfortable.
> >> We are doubling up on hashing with fast-import.
> >> This introduces git-specific logic into vcs-svn.
> 
> IIUC, vcs-svn/fast-export is meant to produce a stream in the
> fast-import format, and that format is meant to be VCS agnostic,
> it would need a careful thinking to add anything Git specific to
> it.  If you make other people's importers unable to read from you
> because you tell them the contents of blob in Git's terms, that is
> not very good.

Good point.

> 
> > You have two choices of referencing that blobs later, by using a mark, or
> > by giving their sha1. Marks are already used for marking commits, and
> > there is only one "mark namespace". So I couldn't use marks to reference
> > the blobs in a nice way. This allows for referencing them by their sha1.
> 
> Surely you can, by using even and odd numbers (or modulo 4 if you
> may later want to mark trees and tags as well, but I doubt that is
> needed), no?

Currently, the mark number is equal to the svn revision number the commit 
corresponds to. I didn't want to break that, but not mandatory. We could also 
split the mark namespace by reserving one or more of the most significant bits 
as a type specifier. 
I'll develop a marks-based version ..

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-20 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-17 20:40 [RFC 1/5] GSOC: prepare svndump for branch detection Florian Achleitner
2012-08-17 20:40 ` [RFC 1/5] vcs-svn: Add sha1 calculaton to fast_export and line_buffer Florian Achleitner
2012-08-17 20:40   ` [RFC 2/5] svndump: move struct definitions to .h Florian Achleitner
2012-08-17 20:40     ` [RFC 3/5] vcs-svn/svndump: restructure node_ctx, rev_ctx handling Florian Achleitner
2012-08-17 20:40       ` [RFC 4/5] vcs-svn/svndump: rewrite handle_node(), begin|end_revision() Florian Achleitner
2012-08-17 20:40         ` [RFC 5/5] vcs-svn: remove repo_tree Florian Achleitner
2012-08-18 18:37 ` [RFC 1/5] GSOC: prepare svndump for branch detection David Michael Barr
2012-08-20  6:26   ` Florian Achleitner
2012-08-20  6:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-20 13:35       ` Florian Achleitner [this message]
2012-08-20 16:45         ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-08-20 17:43           ` Florian Achleitner

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