Subject: Re: GSoC intro

From: Miles Bader <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:34 +0900

Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email-masked]> writes:
>> Hm, and there are still some general questions:
>> What about git-svn? Whats wrong with it? (I haven't used it) I saw the huge
>> perl script, this looks a little extreme ;). But it provides bi-directional
>> access?!
>
> The main problem with git-svn.perl is that it's hard to maintain or
> extend.  See also: David Barr's LCA talk [1].

git-svn's also pretty annoying to use (e.g.  the way dcommit rebases
anything you push to svn, which makes juggling local git branches
problematic; ugh)... :/

-miles

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.Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.