Bazaar as interface to Subversion repositories (was: Echoing a post: bzr vs. git)

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 11:32 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com> writes:
> 
> > I wanted to point out that that most of my work is currently on
> > projects where a Subversion repository is the master copy. Jelmer
> > has put in a lot of work and made sterling progress in making Bazaar
> > a viable tool for working with Subversion repositories where
> > Subversion is the master and not just a place to hold a Bazaar
> > branch (which to be honest is not really a relevant use case for any
> > of my projects).
> 
> Thanks for writing this. Until I saw this it wasn't clear to me just
> what bothered me about ‘bzr-svn’, but now I can put it into words:
> 
> When I hear of the existence of a plug-in for Bazaar that lets it
> intorface with Subversion, there is *no* hint in my mind that this
> will let me put a Bazaar repository inside a Subversion repository and
> then primarily use that repository with Bazaar as the client.
> 
> If that were my use case, why would I need to put the repository into
> Subversion at all? The ease of setting up a Bazaar repository without
> administrative intervention makes the idea of using Subversion as the
> back-end seem masochistic at best; so much so that it doesn't even
> occur to me that a plug-in would be specifically written to do it.
> 
> That ‘bzr-svn’ can import branches from Subversion into a Bazaar
> repository is great, and clearly useful to anyone seeking to migrate
> from a Subversion repository. A plug-in that was one-way like that
> might be called ‘bzr-svn-import’.
> 
> But I would have expected the number of people in Russel's situation,
> and mine — that of encountering an existing Subversion repository and
> wanting to use Bazaar as an interface to it — to be much more common
> than those who want to store *new* Bazaar repositories in Subversion
> without regard for other Subversion users.
> 
> Not to impugn the obviously effective work represented in the
> ‘bzr-svn’ code; but I think a lot of the problems I see people
> discussion about this plug-in would be ameliorated if it were *named*
> differently, so that the fact it was never targeted for these use
> cases at all is abundantly clear. 
I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. What use cases are you
referring to ?

bzr-svn was specifically designed to allow use as a client to Subversion
repositories.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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