Bazaar as interface to Subversion repositories

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 14:13 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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.
The point about bzr-svn really is about interoperability - working
together on the same repository that's also checked out by svn clients,
svk clients and git-svn clients. 

> 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.
Why is it suboptimal to use bzr-svn this way? What sort of design
 decisions would be bad for svn clients?

> 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.
That really is an incorrect impression. I must've missed those
discussions, and would be really interested in hearing what exactly
makes it hard to use bzr-svn as client on the same repository that's
being used by "real" svn clients.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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