Bazaar as a client to existing Subversion repositories (was: [ANNOUNCE] bzr-svn 0.4.11rc1)

[Ben Finney]

Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com> writes:

> Bazaar is now the preferred client for interacting with Subversion
> stores -- no more Subversion checkouts, and no need for Git :-)

Several threads this year on this mailing list have chronicled my poor
experiences trying to use Bazaar as a client to existing Subversion
respositories, and (among other things) the commit noise that ensued
from ever-increasing property changes in the repository.

It was eventually revealed that 'bzr-svn' was not designed with this
use in mind (instead, IIUC, being intended for use as a way to store
Bazaar data in a Subversion repository only ever used by other Bazaar
users), and would need a redesign to store its data in significantly
different ways to avoid such property-change noise on commits.

Reading the change log posted (thanks Jelmer!) I can't determine
whether, or under what circumstances, this might have changed in
recent 'bzr-svn' versions. Do I take your statement above as saying
this issue has been decisively resolved? How? What is needed to
implement it correctly as a user?

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Ben Finney