Re: Any technical reason why hgsubversion can't act as a svn bridge?

Piet,

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 23:04 -0800, Piet Skiet wrote:
[ . . . ]
> > > I'd like to follow this workflow at work:http://community.thoughtworks.com/posts/6e49c1e7b8
[ . . . ]
> You're right, it is confusing, but then again I'm new to DVCS. Is the
> approach you described above used by git-svn as well? I guess what I'd
> like to know is if git-svn model is more suitable for svn bridging.
> 
> In the long run I'd like to convert the natives to a native Mercurial
> setup, mainly because of the ease of distributed cross-platform use.

This issue has been addressed by Bazaar (bzr-svn) as well as Git
(git-svn) and Mercurial.  Bazaar has two modes of working one similar to
the Git one where each repository that dcommits to the Subversion
repository (and hence rebases) can only be used as a standalone
Subversion client.  This works fine for centralized/star workflow --
basically Bazaar/Git are used as Subversion clients.  Bazaar also has a
mode of working where all the Bazaar metadata is stored in the
Subversion repository.  This makes the Subversion repository a peer in a
Bazaar branch network.  You have to be careful never to use dcommit or
rebase but that is easy.

As far as I know, you have to use two Git repositories to do bridging
with svn-git, one is the un-rebased repository that people use as the
proxy for the Subversion repository, and the other is the tool for
interfacing the proxy to the Subversion repository, it suffers all the
rebasing but this is hidden from the rest of the DVCS network.

With Bazaar you can do the same or by banning dcommit and having lots of
extra metadata in the Subversion repository, it can be used directly in
a Bazaar branch network.

Personally I have not tried Mercurial+hgsubversion to write back to a
Subversion repository (I don't have write permission for the Subversion
repositories I use Mercurial+hgsubversion to track) so don't have
equivalent anecdotal feedback for hgsubversion -- I have to admit I am
trying to avoid it by getting people to switch from Subversion to
Mercurial 

I hope this helps.

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