From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Bader Subject: Re: GSoC intro Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:34 +0900 Message-ID: References: <11292500.AVmZFUUvNi@flobuntu> <11105663.xsXc2sBkNH@flobuntu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Florian Achleitner , David Barr , Git Mailing List , Andrew Sayers , Jonathan Nieder , Sverre Rabbelier , Dmitry Ivankov To: Ramkumar Ramachandra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 28 10:10:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SCnxM-00048D-DO for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:10:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751598Ab2C1IJo (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:09:44 -0400 Received: from relmlor4.renesas.com ([210.160.252.174]:52517 "EHLO relmlor4.renesas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751257Ab2C1IJm (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:09:42 -0400 Received: from relmlir3.idc.renesas.com ([10.200.68.153]) by relmlor4.idc.renesas.com ( SJSMS) with ESMTP id <0M1L009175C4FC10@relmlor4.idc.renesas.com> for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:40 +0900 (JST) Received: from relmlac4.idc.renesas.com ([10.200.69.24]) by relmlir3.idc.renesas.com ( SJSMS) with ESMTP id <0M1L00E7J5C44C60@relmlir3.idc.renesas.com> for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:40 +0900 (JST) Received: by relmlac4.idc.renesas.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id AC91E48082; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:40 +0900 (JST) Received: from relmlac4.idc.renesas.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relmlac4.idc.renesas.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DDA480A3; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:40 +0900 (JST) Received: from relmlii1.idc.renesas.com [10.200.68.65] by relmlac4.idc.renesas.com with ESMTP id TAD20356; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:40 +0900 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,329,1330873200"; d="scan'208";a="74469530" Received: from unknown (HELO relay41.aps.necel.com) ([10.29.19.9]) by relmlii1.idc.renesas.com with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:40 +0900 Received: from dhlpc061 (dhlpc061.dev.necel.com [10.114.98.89]) by relay41.aps.necel.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2S89bL2014919; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:37 +0900 (JST) Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 59B7E52E28D; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:09:36 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-reply-to: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ramkumar Ramachandra 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 -- .Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.