Convertion tools (GSoC 2009)

[Augie Fackler]

On Mar 24, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Alexander Solovyov wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Augie Fackler <durin42 at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> The second seems to be the path of least resistance to get going,
>> although in the end (from experience) I think having --svn flags for
>> push/pull/etc to make things more integrated and less odd feeling  
>> will
>
> Why the --svn flag when you can just figure out that svn:// or http 
> +svn:// is
> an svn url? Hmm... this will require user to know that he has to add  
> "+svn"
> to http/ssh url, but anyway he knows what he is doing when he is  
> trying to
> clone svn repository with hg. ;-)

The --svn URL was only intended as a way to explicitly say "use svn  
behavior or fail" rather than figuring it out adhoc.

The plan is to detect this, even with http:// urls. http is the only  
shared url scheme anyway.

>
> -- 
> Alexander
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