Does hgsvn support lossless, bidirectional svn<->hg sync (was: [PATCH] Some yasvn2hg patch)

[Sebastien Lucas]

On 5/9/07, Antoine Pitrou <antoine.pitrou at wengo.com> wrote:
> Le mercredi 09 mai 2007 à 17:08 +0100, Kunle Odutola a écrit :
> > Hi Antoine,
> >
> > > For the record, hgsvn is not meant as a one-way converter, but a
> > > tool to use Mercurial with SVN checkouts.
> >
> > Can you explain further what you mean by this statement please?
> >
> > Does hgsvn essentially allow a user to pull Subversion project(s) into
> > Mercurial repository(s), work on the repository(s) in Mercurial as usual
> > then, push the changes incrementally - including all hg commit history -
> > back to the original Subversion project(s)?
>
> For now it only handles the "pull" part. (which is already useful if you
> don't have commit access to the SVN repo :-))
>
> I have ideas and a start of implementation for the "push" part.
> However I fear the "push" will not be as lossless as the "pull" is,
> because the high-level SVN API doesn't allow, to my knowledge,
> specifying the commit date or author.
>
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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If you're also admin on the SVN repo, you can use the
pre-revprop-change hook to alter the author and commit date (like
svnsync does).

Anyway pushing will be quite hard, especially when having multiple
user committing.