Resolving diverged branches in Subversion repository

[Russel Winder]

Jelmer,

I can see this argument is going to run and run :-)

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 15:11 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 18.06.2008, 07:17 +0100 schrieb Russel Winder: 

> > 1.  Subversion repository stores a Bazaar branch.
> > 2.  Bazaar as intelligent Subversion client.
> I would argue that these two points describe the same thing. 

I'm afraid I cannot agree.  Certainly 2 can be covered by 1 (I am doing
it now) but the problem is all the metadata that 1 requires that 2 does
not.  The time taken to sort out the metadata really is quite
significant.  And then there are the commit reports with 30K of data
about stuff that is completely irrelevant for people in mode 2.

> IMHO git-svn doesn't work like a Subversion client, I would argue that
> git with git-svn is a tool to interoperate with Subversion from git
> (which is a different thing).

I think we are agreeing and saying the same thing in different words.
In the end though because git-svn does not store metadata it is a far
better Subversion client that bzr-svn.  Sadly.

-- 
Russel.
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