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Re: [ANN] SubGit 1.0.0 is released

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:14:42 +0200

On 20.09.2012 08:31, Andreas Krey wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:13:45 +0000, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> ....
>> Java has its uses. Replacing a full-blown, fully implemented C++
>> codebase where the maintainers, who also set the API's, are all
>> working in C++ means entirely different models of file handling,
>> memory management, and maintaining compatibility with a dynamic and
>> evolving codebase, in another language.....
> Sorry, but this is just preemptive bad-mouting. The problem isn't that
> there is no good good implementation of an svn server. The problem is that
> the people working on that implementation aren't going to offer any path
> that would enable other to integrate a git view on the repository. Heck,
> they don't even offer a specified network protocol and insist that
> *clients* use the C library.
>
> So the only way to have a server that is viewable via git and via svn is
> to rewrite the server. (Which is also good because the svn repo structure
> is, well, suboptimal even for its own pourposes.) And there is obviously
> enough public interest/suffering that subgit isn't even the first project
> to do so - see svnhub.com.

I'm sure there are any number of forums out there that specialize in
Subversion-vs.-Git bashing. This is not one of them. Take this
"discussion" somewhere else, thanks.

-- Brane

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