On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Gour <g...@atmarama.net> wrote: > Well, I believe that Fossil could be interested for many SVN projects. > > The project which I converted has Git mirror which works with svn2git > and every project users can see how does it feel using new (D)VCS. In > that way, by not being able to do similar thing for Fossil, it's hard to > compete with projects' migration to Git.
I haven't been successful finding a standalone SVN dump to git-fast-export converter and I don't know how git-svn works. Several descriptions of it claim that once a git clone of the SVN repo is created, it's possible for the clone to sync with the SVN repo. The descriptions also seem to imply the initial clone doesn't require a SVN dump file (but there seems to be a way to remote dump an SVN repo, so I may be wrong). Still, I'm curious if a better import could be made from a SVN dump file. I don't know the limitations of git-fast-export format. Is it worth trying to create a standalone format converter that creates that? (so far, what I've found for writing git-fast-export files look hard to use) Or I could try using libfossil to create a Fossil repo directly. Don't know if I could actually do this. Even though SVN::Dump::Reader is not hard to use, still need to interpret the resulting tree of artifacts and map their meaning to Fossil semantics. And then learning how to use libfossil.
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