Bazaar as interface to Subversion repositories

[Ben Finney]

Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> writes:

> 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.

I'm confused then. I've had many discussion in this forum where it was
made explicit that most of the work of ‘bzr-svn’ is targeted at the
use case where *everyone* using the subversion repository is using
Bazaar as the client.

Specifically, this has been the underlying explanation presented to
mewhen I pointed out how using Bazaar as a client to existing
Subversion branches *that other users interact with through Subversion
tools* is sub-optimal. IIRC, the discussions covered areas like design
decisions made in the storage data, which were appropriate only if one
didn't use Subversion as the client.

I got the impression similar to “yes, it would have been good to
support using Bazaar as a client to existing
still-used-by-Subversion-people Subversion repositories, but that
would detract from the goal of using Subversion repositories to store
Bazaar-only branches”. If that's *not* a goal of ‘bzr-svn’, then I am
back to not understanding why sacrifices have been made in support of
it.

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Ben Finney