[ANN] hgsubversion - patches wanted!

Augie Fackler lists at durin42.com
Tue Sep 30 17:18:29 CDT 2008


On Sep 30, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Bill Barry wrote:

> Any chance this might work with SVNBridge (I'd love to use hg to get  
> stuff off of the TFS servers at codeplex)? Pull only is fine, btw (I  
> wouldn't need to be able to push back).

I'd never heard of SVNBridge until now, so I don't know. If it can  
translate the RA requests, I don't see any reason it wouldn't work.  
Try it and find out!

>
> Augie Fackler wrote:
>> Greetings all! (and apologies for you fellow VC junkies on both of  
>> these lists)
>>
>> I'm pleased to announce my work on a Mercurial extension that  
>> supports using hg as a Subversion client has borne a fair amount of  
>> fruit, and at the prodding of some friends I'm releasing it to the  
>> wild.
>>
>> http://www.bitbucket.org/durin42/hgsubversion/
>>
>> Note: at this time, it is *not* ready for prime-time use, but for  
>> hackers it should be reasonably sane-- If it eats babies or blows  
>> up your computer, you've been warned.
>>
>> At this time, I've got push to Subversion working except for some  
>> known defects listed in TODO, and pull has been stable for quite  
>> some time. That said, a lot of this code is kind of scary, and  
>> could use some cleanup. I've been working on this alone, so it's  
>> under-documented and makes bad assumptions both on the Subversion  
>> side and on the Mercurial side. I'd love to have people from both  
>> projects look at this and submit comments and patches to make it  
>> even more robust.
>>
>> Happy hacking!
>>
>> Augie
>>
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