On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 1:27 PM Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 09.12.2018 19:14, Thorsten Schöning wrote: > > Guten Tag Thorsten Schöning, > > am Mittwoch, 21. November 2018 um 15:23 schrieben Sie: > > > >>> Thanks for following up. Our engineers have been able to reproduce > >>> the error on our CI system and are working on a fix. > > Another two weeks have passed without any hint to the status of this > > problem from GH and I don't have the feeling that they are really > > working on this. > > > > Does anyone have any other infos? If not, does the SVN-team has any > > plans to release their workaround mentioned in the following ticket? > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4789 > > So, as I said in one of the mails referred to in that issue ... I'd > really prefer not to do that. Yet on the other hand, that GitHub->SVN > bridge is useful to users who're not locked into the gitficionado world. > > My current thinking is that if GitHub can't fix their protocol emulation > by the time of the planned Subversion 1.12 release, we'll have to > seriously consider including this patch. > > But I'd still rather not ...
I've reviewed the directions at https://help.github.com/articles/support-for-subversion-clients/ , and it's a fairly ugly hack, and work to do the integrated checkouts. The last person I met who used it switched, with my help, to using git, and using git-svn for access to their local Subversion repositories so that they could commit working changes locally before submitting them to the upstream Subversion repository. I recognize that this is *not* the standard Subversion workflow, but I understood his desire to publish upstream only the changes he wished to submit. I'm afraid that the Subversion gateways to github.com are a niche market, and not one likely to get eager support from github.com without a compelling business reason to support them. The learning curve to use git effectively is pretty steep, but the market for Subversion-only users has been shrinking profoundly over the last decade.
