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Hello, I've written a simple tool for interoperating between git and svn. I wrote this so I could use git to work on projects where other developers use Subversion. I really hate using svn, but some projects I work on require it, and svk isn't nearly as fast nor simple as git.

git-svn does not replace git-svnimport, git-svnimport handles branches and tags automatically, but is too inflexible about repository layouts to be useful for a good number of projects I follow, and of course git-svnimport can't commit to Subversion repositories :)

git-svn only cares about a single branch/trunk in SVN[1], but you can use as many branches in git as you want. This makes it much easier to use and allows it to handle just about any repository layout, not just those recommended in the SVN book/developers.

Although importing changesets from SVN is mostly a linear affair, committing to SVN is the opposite. You may commit git tree objects in any order you want. It simply clobbers the existing svn tree as 'git-checkout -f' would, but tags file renames/copies carefully so users on the SVN side can see them. You can even do some wacky things with patch reordering.

Basic day-to-day usage is pretty simple, and is designed to work with and also work like normal git commands:

# Initialize a tree (like git init-db)::
git-svn init http://svn.foo.org/project/trunk

# Fetch remote revisions::
git-svn fetch

# Create your own branch to hack on::
git checkout -b my-branch git-svn-HEAD

# Commit only the git commits you want to SVN::

	git-svn commit <tree-ish> [<tree-ish_2> ...] 

# Commit all the git commits from my-branch that don't exist in SVN::

	git rev-list --pretty=oneline git-svn-HEAD..my-branch | git-svn commit

# Something is committed to SVN, pull the latest into your branch::

	git-svn fetch && git pull . git-svn-HEAD

@ Junio: Is there room for this in the git distribution alongside git-svnimport?

Thanks for reading,

[1] - there are some a hacks that lets you handle branches and tags, but it's not automated in any way, requires a bit of imagination to use to its full potential, and is very much a hack. See the man page :)

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#!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use vars qw/ $AUTHOR $VERSION

		$SVN_URL $SVN_INFO $SVN_WC
		$GIT_SVN_INDEX $GIT_SVN
		$GIT_DIR $REV_DIR/;

$AUTHOR = 'Eric Wong <[email protected]>';
$VERSION = '0.9.0';
$GIT_DIR = $ENV{GIT_DIR} || "$ENV{PWD}/.git";
$GIT_SVN = $ENV{GIT_SVN_ID} || 'git-svn';
$GIT_SVN_INDEX = "$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN/index";
$ENV{GIT_DIR} ||= $GIT_DIR;
$SVN_URL = undef;
$REV_DIR = "$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN/revs";
$SVN_WC = "$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN/tree";

# make sure the svn binary gives consistent output between locales and TZs:
$ENV{TZ} = 'UTC';
$ENV{LC_ALL} = 'C';

# If SVN:: library support is added, please make the dependencies

# optional and preserve the capability to use the command-line client.
# See what I do with XML::Simple to make the dependency optional.
use Carp qw/croak/;
use IO::File qw//;
use File::Basename qw/dirname basename/;
use File::Path qw/mkpath/;
use Getopt::Long qw/:config gnu_getopt no_ignore_case auto_abbrev/;
use File::Spec qw//;
my $sha1 = qr/[a-f\d]{40}/;
my $sha1_short = qr/[a-f\d]{6,40}/;
my ($_revision,$_stdin,$_no_ignore_ext,$_no_stop_copy,$_help,$_rmdir,$_edit);

GetOptions( 'revision|r=s' => \$_revision,

		'no-ignore-externals' => \$_no_ignore_ext,
		'stdin|' => \$_stdin,
		'edit|e' => \$_edit,
		'rmdir' => \$_rmdir,
		'help|H|h' => \$_help,
		'no-stop-copy' => \$_no_stop_copy );

my %cmd = (
fetch => [ \&fetch, "Download new revisions from SVN" ], init => [ \&init, "Initialize and fetch (import)"],
commit => [ \&commit, "Commit git revisions to SVN" ], rebuild => [ \&rebuild, "Rebuild git-svn metadata (after git clone)" ], help => [ \&usage, "Show help" ],
);
my $cmd;

for (my $i = 0; $i < @ARGV; $i++) {
	if (defined $cmd{$ARGV[$i]}) {
		$cmd = $ARGV[$i];
		splice @ARGV, $i, 1;
		last;
	}
};
# we may be called as git-svn-(command), or git-svn(command).
foreach (keys %cmd) {
	if (/git\-svn\-?($_)(?:\.\w+)?$/) {
		$cmd = $1;
		last;
	}
}
usage(0) if $_help;
usage(1) unless (defined $cmd);
svn_check_ignore_externals();
$cmd{$cmd}->[0]->(@ARGV);
exit 0;

####################### primary functions ######################

sub usage {
	my $exit = shift || 0;
	my $fd = $exit ? \*STDERR : \*STDOUT;
	print $fd <<"";

git-svn - bidirectional operations between a single Subversion tree and git
Usage: $0 <command> [options] [arguments]\n
Available commands:

	foreach (sort keys %cmd) {
		print $fd '  ',pack('A10',$_),$cmd{$_}->[1],"\n";
	}
	print $fd <<"";

\nGIT_SVN_ID may be set in the environment to an arbitrary identifier if you're tracking multiple SVN branches/repositories in one git repository and want to keep them separate.

	exit $exit;
}
sub rebuild {
	$SVN_URL = shift or undef;
	my $repo_uuid;
	my $newest_rev = 0;
	
	my $pid = open(my $rev_list,'-|');
	defined $pid or croak $!;
	if ($pid == 0) {
		exec("git-rev-list","$GIT_SVN-HEAD") or croak $!;
	}
	my $first;
	while (<$rev_list>) {
		chomp;
		my $c = $_;
		croak "Non-SHA1: $c\n" unless $c =~ /^$sha1$/o;
		my @commit = grep(/^git-svn-id: /,`git-cat-file commit $c`);
		next if (!@commit); # skip merges
		my $id = $commit[$#commit];
		my ($url, $rev, $uuid) = ($id =~ /^git-svn-id:\s(\S+?)\@(\d+)
						\s([a-f\d\-]+)$/x);
		if (!$rev || !$uuid || !$url) {
			# some of the original repositories I made had
			# indentifiers like this:
			($rev, $uuid) = ($id =~/^git-svn-id:\s(\d+)
							\@([a-f\d\-]+)/x);
			if (!$rev || !$uuid) {
				croak "Unable to extract revision or UUID from ",
					"$c, $id\n";
			}
		}
		print "r$rev = $c\n";
		unless (defined $first) {
			if (!$SVN_URL && !$url) {
				croak "SVN repository location required: $url\n";
			}
			$SVN_URL ||= $url;
			$repo_uuid = setup_git_svn();
			$first = $rev;
		}
		if ($uuid ne $repo_uuid) {
			croak "Repository UUIDs do not match!\ngot: $uuid\n",
						"expected: $repo_uuid\n";
		}
		assert_revision_eq_or_unknown($rev, $c);
		sys('git-update-ref',"$GIT_SVN/revs/$rev",$c);
		$newest_rev = $rev if ($rev > $newest_rev);
	}
	close $rev_list or croak $?;
	if (!chdir $SVN_WC) {
		my @svn_co = ('svn','co',"-r$first");
		push @svn_co, '--ignore-externals' unless $_no_ignore_ext;
		sys(@svn_co, $SVN_URL, $SVN_WC);
		chdir $SVN_WC or croak $!;
	}
	
	$pid = fork;
	defined $pid or croak $!;
	if ($pid == 0) {
		my @svn_up = qw(svn up);
		push @svn_up, '--ignore-externals' unless $_no_ignore_ext;
		sys(@svn_up,"-r$newest_rev");
		$ENV{GIT_INDEX_FILE} = $GIT_SVN_INDEX; 
		git_addremove();
		exec('git-write-tree');
	}
	waitpid $pid, 0;
}
sub init {
	$SVN_URL = shift or croak "SVN repository location required\n";
	unless (-d $GIT_DIR) {
		sys('git-init-db');
	}
	setup_git_svn();
}
sub fetch {
	my (@parents) = @_;
	$SVN_URL ||= file_to_s("$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN/info/url");
	my @log_args = -d $SVN_WC ? ($SVN_WC) : ($SVN_URL);
	if (-d $SVN_WC && !$_revision) {
		$_revision = 'BASE:HEAD';
	}
	push @log_args, "-r$_revision" if $_revision;
	push @log_args, '--stop-on-copy' unless $_no_stop_copy;

	eval { require XML::Simple or croak $! };
	my $svn_log = $@ ? svn_log_raw(@log_args) : svn_log_xml(@log_args);
	
	my $base = shift @$svn_log or croak "No base revision!\n";
	my $last_commit = undef;
	unless (-d $SVN_WC) {
		my @svn_co = ('svn','co',"-r$base->{revision}");
		push @svn_co,'--ignore-externals' unless $_no_ignore_ext;
		sys(@svn_co, $SVN_URL, $SVN_WC);
		chdir $SVN_WC or croak $!;
		$last_commit = git_commit($base, @parents);
		unless (-f "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master") {
			sys(qw(git-update-ref refs/heads/master),$last_commit);
		}
		assert_svn_wc_clean($base->{revision}, $last_commit);
	} else {
		chdir $SVN_WC or croak $!;
		$last_commit = file_to_s("$REV_DIR/$base->{revision}");
	}
	my @svn_up = qw(svn up);
	push @svn_up, '--ignore-externals' unless $_no_ignore_ext;
	my $last_rev = $base->{revision};
	foreach my $log_msg (@$svn_log) {
		assert_svn_wc_clean($last_rev, $last_commit);
		$last_rev = $log_msg->{revision};
		sys(@svn_up,"-r$last_rev");
		$last_commit = git_commit($log_msg, $last_commit, @parents);
	}
	assert_svn_wc_clean($last_rev, $last_commit);
	return pop @$svn_log;
}
sub commit {
	my (@commits) = @_;
	if ($_stdin || !@commits) {
		print "Reading from stdin...\n";
		@commits = ();
		while (<STDIN>) {
			if (/^([a-f\d]{6,40})\b/) {
				unshift @commits, $1;
			}
		}
	}
	my @revs;
	foreach (@commits) {
		push @revs, (safe_qx('git-rev-parse',$_));
	}
	chomp @revs;
	
	fetch();
	chdir $SVN_WC or croak $!;
	my $svn_current_rev =  svn_info('.')->{'Last Changed Rev'};
	foreach my $c (@revs) {
		print "Committing $c\n";
		svn_checkout_tree($svn_current_rev, $c);
		$svn_current_rev = svn_commit_tree($svn_current_rev, $c);
	}
	print "Done committing ",scalar @revs," revisions to SVN\n";

}

########################### utility functions #########################

sub setup_git_svn {
	defined $SVN_URL or croak "SVN repository location required\n";
	unless (-d $GIT_DIR) {
		croak "GIT_DIR=$GIT_DIR does not exist!\n";
	}
	mkpath(["$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN"]);
	mkpath(["$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN/info"]);
	mkpath([$REV_DIR]);
	s_to_file($SVN_URL,"$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN/info/url");
	my $uuid = svn_info($SVN_URL)->{'Repository UUID'} or
					croak "Repository UUID unreadable\n";
	s_to_file($uuid,"$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN/info/uuid");

	open my $fd, '>>', "$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN/info/exclude" or croak $!;
	print $fd '.svn',"\n";
	close $fd or croak $!;
	return $uuid;
}
sub assert_svn_wc_clean {
	my ($svn_rev, $commit) = @_;
	croak "$svn_rev is not an integer!\n" unless ($svn_rev =~ /^\d+$/);
	croak "$commit is not a sha1!\n" unless ($commit =~ /^$sha1$/o);
	my $svn_info = svn_info('.');
	if ($svn_rev != $svn_info->{'Last Changed Rev'}) {
		croak "Expected r$svn_rev, got r",
				$svn_info->{'Last Changed Rev'},"\n";
	}
	my @status = grep(!/^Performing status on external/,(`svn status`));
	@status = grep(!/^\s*$/,@status);
	if (scalar @status) {
		print STDERR "Tree ($SVN_WC) is not clean:\n";
		print STDERR $_ foreach @status;
		croak;
	}
	my ($tree_a) = grep(/^tree $sha1$/o,`git-cat-file commit $commit`);
	$tree_a =~ s/^tree //;
	chomp $tree_a;
	chomp(my $tree_b = `GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_SVN_INDEX git-write-tree`);
	if ($tree_a ne $tree_b) {
		croak "$svn_rev != $commit, $tree_a != $tree_b\n";
	}
}
sub parse_diff_tree {
	my $diff_fh = shift;
	local $/ = "\0";
	my $state = 'meta';
	my @mods;
	while (<$diff_fh>) {
		chomp $_; # this gets rid of the trailing "\0"
		print $_,"\n";
		if ($state eq 'meta' && /^:(\d{6})\s(\d{6})\s
					$sha1\s($sha1)\s([MTCRAD])\d*$/xo) {
			push @mods, {	mode_a => $1, mode_b => $2,
					sha1_b => $3, chg => $4 };
			if ($4 =~ /^(?:C|R)$/) {
				$state = 'file_a';
			} else {
				$state = 'file_b';
			}
		} elsif ($state eq 'file_a') {
			my $x = $mods[$#mods] or croak __LINE__,": Empty array\n";
			if ($x->{chg} !~ /^(?:C|R)$/) {
				croak __LINE__,": Error parsing $_, $x->{chg}\n";
			}
			$x->{file_a} = $_;
			$state = 'file_b';
		} elsif ($state eq 'file_b') {
			my $x = $mods[$#mods] or croak __LINE__,": Empty array\n";
			if (exists $x->{file_a} && $x->{chg} !~ /^(?:C|R)$/) {
				croak __LINE__,": Error parsing $_, $x->{chg}\n";
			}
			if (!exists $x->{file_a} && $x->{chg} =~ /^(?:C|R)$/) {
				croak __LINE__,": Error parsing $_, $x->{chg}\n";
			}
			$x->{file_b} = $_;
			$state = 'meta';
		} else {
			croak __LINE__,": Error parsing $_\n";
		}
	}
	close $diff_fh or croak $!;
	return \@mods;
}
sub svn_check_prop_executable {
	my $m = shift;
	if ($m->{mode_b} =~ /755$/ && $m->{mode_a} !~ /755$/) {
		sys(qw(svn propset svn:executable 1), $m->{file_b});
	} elsif ($m->{mode_b} !~ /755$/ && $m->{mode_a} =~ /755$/) {
		sys(qw(svn propdel svn:executable), $m->{file_b});
	}
}
sub svn_ensure_parent_path {
	my $dir_b = dirname(shift);
	svn_ensure_parent_path($dir_b) if ($dir_b ne File::Spec->curdir);
	mkpath([$dir_b]) unless (-d $dir_b);
	sys(qw(svn add -N), $dir_b) unless (-d "$dir_b/.svn");
}
sub svn_checkout_tree {
	my ($svn_rev, $commit) = @_;
	my $from = file_to_s("$REV_DIR/$svn_rev");
	assert_svn_wc_clean($svn_rev,$from);
	print "diff-tree '$from' '$commit'\n";
	my $pid = open my $diff_fh, '-|';
	defined $pid or croak $!;
	if ($pid == 0) {
		exec(qw(git-diff-tree -z -r -C), $from, $commit) or croak $!;
	}
	my $mods = parse_diff_tree($diff_fh);
	unless (@$mods) {
		# git can do empty commits, SVN doesn't allow it...
		return $svn_rev;
	}
	my %rm;
	foreach my $m (@$mods) {
		if ($m->{chg} eq 'C') {
			svn_ensure_parent_path( $m->{file_b} );
			sys(qw(svn cp),		$m->{file_a}, $m->{file_b});
			blob_to_file(		$m->{sha1_b}, $m->{file_b});
			svn_check_prop_executable($m);
		} elsif ($m->{chg} eq 'D') {
			$rm{dirname $m->{file_b}}->{basename $m->{file_b}} = 1;
			sys(qw(svn rm --force), $m->{file_b});
		} elsif ($m->{chg} eq 'R') {
			svn_ensure_parent_path( $m->{file_b} );
			sys(qw(svn mv --force), $m->{file_a}, $m->{file_b});
			blob_to_file(		$m->{sha1_b}, $m->{file_b});
			svn_check_prop_executable($m);
			$rm{dirname $m->{file_a}}->{basename $m->{file_a}} = 1;
		} elsif ($m->{chg} eq 'M') {
			if ($m->{mode_b} =~ /^120/ && $m->{mode_a} =~ /^120/) {
				unlink $m->{file_b} or croak $!;
				blob_to_symlink($m->{sha1_b}, $m->{file_b});
			} else {
				blob_to_file($m->{sha1_b}, $m->{file_b});
			}
			svn_check_prop_executable($m);
		} elsif ($m->{chg} eq 'T') {
			sys(qw(svn rm --force),$m->{file_b});
			if ($m->{mode_b} =~ /^120/ && $m->{mode_a} =~ /^100/) {
				blob_to_symlink($m->{sha1_b}, $m->{file_b});
			} else {
				blob_to_file($m->{sha1_b}, $m->{file_b});
			}
			svn_check_prop_executable($m);
			sys(qw(svn add --force), $m->{file_b});
		} elsif ($m->{chg} eq 'A') {
			svn_ensure_parent_path( $m->{file_b} );
			blob_to_file(		$m->{sha1_b}, $m->{file_b});
			if ($m->{mode_b} =~ /755$/) {
				chmod 0755, $m->{file_b};
			}
			sys(qw(svn add --force), $m->{file_b});
		} else {
			croak "Invalid chg: $m->{chg}\n";
		}
	}
	if ($_rmdir) {
		my $old_index = $ENV{GIT_INDEX_FILE};
		$ENV{GIT_INDEX_FILE} = $GIT_SVN_INDEX;
		foreach my $dir (keys %rm) {
			my $files = $rm{$dir};
			my @files;
			foreach (safe_qx('svn','ls',$dir)) {
				chomp;
				push @files, $_ unless $files->{$_};
			}
			sys(qw(svn rm),$dir) unless @files;
		}
		if ($old_index) {
			$ENV{GIT_INDEX_FILE} = $old_index;
		} else {
			delete $ENV{GIT_INDEX_FILE};
		}
	}
}
sub svn_commit_tree {
	my ($svn_rev, $commit) = @_;
	my $commit_msg = "$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN/.svn-commit.tmp.$$";
	open my $msg, '>', $commit_msg  or croak $!;
	
	chomp(my $type = `git-cat-file -t $commit`);
	if ($type eq 'commit') {
		my $pid = open my $msg_fh, '-|';
		defined $pid or croak $!;

		if ($pid == 0) {
			exec(qw(git-cat-file commit), $commit) or croak $!;
		}
		my $in_msg = 0;
		while (<$msg_fh>) {
			if (!$in_msg) {
				$in_msg = 1 if (/^\s*$/);
			} else {
				print $msg $_ or croak $!;
			}
		}
		close $msg_fh or croak $!;
	}
	close $msg or croak $!;

	if ($_edit || ($type eq 'tree')) {
		my $editor = $ENV{VISUAL} || $ENV{EDITOR} || 'vi';
		system($editor, $commit_msg);
	}
	my @ci_output = safe_qx(qw(svn commit -F),$commit_msg);
	my ($committed) = grep(/^Committed revision \d+\./,@ci_output);
	unlink $commit_msg;
	defined $committed or croak
			"Commit output failed to parse committed revision!\n",
			join("\n",@ci_output),"\n";
	my ($rev_committed) = ($committed =~ /^Committed revision (\d+)\./);

	# resync immediately
	my @svn_up = (qw(svn up), "-r$svn_rev");
	push @svn_up, '--ignore-externals' unless $_no_ignore_ext;
	sys(@svn_up);
	return fetch("$rev_committed=$commit")->{revision};
}
sub svn_log_xml {
	my (@log_args) = @_;
	my $log_fh = IO::File->new_tmpfile or croak $!;
	
	my $pid = fork;
	defined $pid or croak $!;
	
	if ($pid == 0) {
		open STDOUT, '>&', $log_fh or croak $!;
		exec (qw(svn log --xml), @log_args) or croak $!
	}
	
	waitpid $pid, 0;
	croak $? if $?;

	seek $log_fh, 0, 0;
	my @svn_log;
	my $log = XML::Simple::XMLin( $log_fh,
				ForceArray => ['path','revision','logentry'],
				KeepRoot => 0,
				KeyAttr => {	logentry => '+revision',
						paths => '+path' },
			)->{logentry};
	foreach my $r (sort {$a <=> $b} keys %$log) {
		my $log_msg = $log->{$r};
		my ($Y,$m,$d,$H,$M,$S) = ($log_msg->{date} =~
					/(\d{4})\-(\d\d)\-(\d\d)T
					 (\d\d)\:(\d\d)\:(\d\d)\.\d+Z$/x)
					 or croak "Failed to parse date: ",
						 $log->{$r}->{date};
		$log_msg->{date} = "+0000 $Y-$m-$d $H:$M:$S";

		# XML::Simple can't handle <msg></msg> as a string:
		if (ref $log_msg->{msg} eq 'HASH') {
			$log_msg->{msg} = "\n";
		} else {
			$log_msg->{msg} .= "\n";
		}
		push @svn_log, $log->{$r};
	}
	return \@svn_log;
}
sub svn_log_raw {
	my (@log_args) = @_;
	my $pid = open my $log_fh,'-|';
	defined $pid or croak $!;
	
	if ($pid == 0) {
		exec (qw(svn log), @log_args) or croak $!
	}
	
	my @svn_log;
	my $state;
	while (<$log_fh>) {
		chomp;
		if (/^\-{72}$/) {
			$state = 'rev';
			
			# if we have an empty log message, put something there:
			if (@svn_log) {
				$svn_log[0]->{msg} ||= "\n";
			}
			next;
		}
		if ($state eq 'rev' && s/^r(\d+)\s*\|\s*//) {
			my $rev = $1;
			my ($author, $date) = split(/\s*\|\s*/, $_, 2);
			my ($Y,$m,$d,$H,$M,$S,$tz) = ($date =~
					/(\d{4})\-(\d\d)\-(\d\d)\s
					 (\d\d)\:(\d\d)\:(\d\d)\s([\-\+]\d+)/x)
					 or croak "Failed to parse date: $date\n";
			my %log_msg = (	revision => $rev,
					date => "$tz $Y-$m-$d $H:$M:$S",
					author => $author,
					msg => '' );
			unshift @svn_log, \%log_msg;
			$state = 'msg_start';
			next;
		}
		# skip the first blank line of the message:
		if ($state eq 'msg_start' && /^$/) {
			$state = 'msg';
		} elsif ($state eq 'msg') {
			$svn_log[0]->{msg} .= $_."\n";
		}
	}
	close $log_fh or croak $?;
	return \@svn_log;
}
sub svn_info {
	my $url = shift || $SVN_URL;

	my $pid = open my $info_fh, '-|';
	defined $pid or croak $!;
	
	if ($pid == 0) {
		exec(qw(svn info),$url) or croak $!;
	}
	
	my $ret = {};
	# only single-lines seem to exist in svn info output
	while (<$info_fh>) {
		chomp $_;
		if (m#^([^:]+)\s*:\s*(\S*)$#) {
			$ret->{$1} = $2;
			push @{$ret->{-order}}, $1;
		}
	}
	close $info_fh or croak $!;
	return $ret;
}

sub sys { system(@_) == 0 or croak $? }

sub git_addremove {
	system(	"git-ls-files -z --others ".
			"'--exclude-from=$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN/info/exclude'".
				"| git-update-index --add -z --stdin; ".
		"git-ls-files -z --deleted ".
				"| git-update-index --remove -z --stdin; ".
		"git-ls-files -z --modified".
				"| git-update-index -z --stdin") == 0 or croak $?
}
sub s_to_file {
	my ($str, $file, $mode) = @_;
	open my $fd,'>',$file or croak $!;
	print $fd $str,"\n" or croak $!;
	close $fd or croak $!;
	chmod ($mode &~ umask, $file) if (defined $mode);
}
sub file_to_s {
	my $file = shift;
	open my $fd,'<',$file or croak "$!: file: $file\n";
	local $/;
	my $ret = <$fd>;
	close $fd or croak $!;
 	$ret =~ s/\s*$//s;
	return $ret;
}
sub assert_revision_unknown {
	my $revno = shift;
	if (-f "$REV_DIR/$revno") {
		croak "$REV_DIR/$revno already exists! ",
				"Why are we refetching it?";
	}
}
sub assert_revision_eq_or_unknown {
	my ($revno, $commit) = @_;
	if (-f "$REV_DIR/$revno") {
		my $current = file_to_s("$REV_DIR/$revno");
		if ($commit ne $current) {
			croak "$REV_DIR/$revno already exists!\n",
				"current: $current\nexpected: $commit\n";
		}
		return;
	}
}
sub git_commit {
	my ($log_msg, @parents) = @_;
	assert_revision_unknown($log_msg->{revision});
	my $out_fh = IO::File->new_tmpfile or croak $!;
	my $info = svn_info('.');
	my $uuid = $info->{'Repository UUID'};
	defined $uuid or croak "Unable to get Repository UUID\n";

	# commit parents can be conditionally bound to a particular
	# svn revision via: "svn_revno=commit_sha1", filter them out here:
	my @exec_parents;
	foreach my $p (@parents) {
		next unless defined $p;
		if ($p =~ /^(\d+)=($sha1_short)$/o) {
			if ($1 == $log_msg->{revision}) {
				push @exec_parents, $2;
			}
		} else {
			push @exec_parents, $p if $p =~ /$sha1_short/o;
		}
	}

	my $pid = fork;
	defined $pid or croak $!;
	if ($pid == 0) {
		$ENV{GIT_INDEX_FILE} = $GIT_SVN_INDEX;
		git_addremove();
		chomp(my $tree = `git-write-tree`);
		croak if $?;
		my $msg_fh = IO::File->new_tmpfile or croak $!;
		print $msg_fh $log_msg->{msg}, "\ngit-svn-id: ", 
					"$SVN_URL\@$log_msg->{revision}",
					" $uuid\n" or croak $!;
		$msg_fh->flush == 0 or croak $!;
		seek $msg_fh, 0, 0 or croak $!;

		$ENV{GIT_AUTHOR_NAME} = $ENV{GIT_COMMITTER_NAME} =
						$log_msg->{author};
		$ENV{GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL} = $ENV{GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL} =
						$log_msg->{author}."\@$uuid";
		$ENV{GIT_AUTHOR_DATE} = $ENV{GIT_COMMITTER_DATE} =
						$log_msg->{date};
		my @exec = ('git-commit-tree',$tree);
		push @exec, '-p', $_  foreach @exec_parents;
		open STDIN, '<&', $msg_fh or croak $!;
		open STDOUT, '>&', $out_fh or croak $!;
		exec @exec or croak $!;
	}
	waitpid($pid,0);
	croak if $?;

	$out_fh->flush == 0 or croak $!;
	seek $out_fh, 0, 0 or croak $!;
	chomp(my $commit = do { local $/; <$out_fh> });
	if ($commit !~ /^$sha1$/o) {
		croak "Failed to commit, invalid sha1: $commit\n";
	}
	my @update_ref = ('git-update-ref',"refs/heads/$GIT_SVN-HEAD",$commit);
	if (my $primary_parent = shift @exec_parents) {
		push @update_ref, $primary_parent;
	}
	sys(@update_ref);
	sys('git-update-ref',"$GIT_SVN/revs/$log_msg->{revision}",$commit);
	print "r$log_msg->{revision} = $commit\n";
	return $commit;
}
sub blob_to_symlink {
	my ($blob, $link) = @_;
	defined $link or croak "\$link not defined!\n";
	croak "Not a sha1: $blob\n" unless $blob =~ /^$sha1$/o;
	my $dest = `git-cat-file blob $blob`; # no newline, so no chomp
	symlink $dest, $link or croak $!;
}
sub blob_to_file {
	my ($blob, $file) = @_;
	defined $file or croak "\$file not defined!\n";
	croak "Not a sha1: $blob\n" unless $blob =~ /^$sha1$/o;
	open my $blob_fh, '>', $file or croak "$!: $file\n";
	my $pid = fork;
	defined $pid or croak $!;

	if ($pid == 0) {
		open STDOUT, '>&', $blob_fh or croak $!;
		exec('git-cat-file','blob',$blob);
	}
	waitpid $pid, 0;
	croak $? if $?;
	
	close $blob_fh or croak $!;
}
sub safe_qx {
	my $pid = open my $child, '-|';
	defined $pid or croak $!;
	if ($pid == 0) {
		exec(@_) or croak $?;
	}
	my @ret = (<$child>);
	close $child or croak $?;
	die $? if $?; # just in case close didn't error out
	return wantarray ? @ret : join('',@ret);
}
sub svn_check_ignore_externals {
	return if $_no_ignore_ext;
	unless (grep /ignore-externals/,(safe_qx(qw(svn co -h)))) {
		print STDERR "W: Installed svn version does not support ",
				"--ignore-externals\n";
		$_no_ignore_ext = 1;
	}
}

__END__

Data structures:

@svn_log = array of log_msg hashes

$log_msg hash
{
msg => 'whitespace-formatted log entry
', # trailing newline is preserved

	revision => '8',			# integer
	date => '2004-02-24T17:01:44.108345Z',	# commit date
	author => 'committer name' 
};

@mods = array of diff-index line hashes, each element represents one line
of diff-index output

diff-index line ($m hash)
{
mode_a => first column of diff-index output, no leading ':', mode_b => second column of diff-index output, sha1_b => sha1sum of the final blob,
chg => change type [MCRAD],
file_a => original file name of a file (iff chg is 'C' or 'R') file_b => new/current file name of a file (any chg)
}
;

git-svn(1)
==========

NAME
----
git-svn - bidirectional operation between a single Subversion branch and git

SYNOPSIS
--------
'git-svn' <command> [options] [arguments]

DESCRIPTION
-----------
git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion branch and git.

git-svn is not to be confused with git-svnimport. The were designed with very different goals in mind.

git-svn is designed for an individual developer who wants a bidirectional flow of changesets between a single branch in Subversion and an arbitrary number of branches in git. git-svnimport is designed for read-only operation on repositories that match a particular layout (albeit the recommended one by SVN developers).

For importing svn, git-svnimport is potentially more powerful when operating on repositories organized under the recommended trunk/branch/tags structure, and should be faster, too.

git-svn completely ignores the very limited view of branching that Subversion has. This allows git-svn to be much easier to use, especially on repositories that are not organized in a manner that git-svnimport is designed for.

COMMANDS
--------
init::
Creates an empty git repository with additional metadata directories for git-svn. The SVN_URL must be specified at this point.

fetch::
Fetch unfetched revisions from the SVN_URL we are tracking. refs/heads/git-svn-HEAD will be updated to the latest revision.

commit::
Commit specified commit or tree objects to SVN. This relies on your imported fetch data being up-to-date. This makes absolutely no attempts to do patching when committing to SVN, it simply overwrites files with those specified in the tree or commit. All merging is assumed to have taken place independently of git-svn functions.

rebuild::
Not a part of daily usage, but this is a useful command if you've just cloned a repository (using git-clone) that was tracked with git-svn. Unfortunately, git-clone does not clone git-svn metadata and the svn working tree that git-svn uses for its operations. This rebuilds the metadata so git-svn can resume fetch operations. SVN_URL may be optionally specified if the directory/repository you're tracking has moved or changed protocols.

OPTIONS
-------
-r <ARG>::
--revision <ARG>::
Only used with the 'fetch' command.

Takes any valid -r<argument> svn would accept and passes it directly to svn. -r<ARG1>:<ARG2> ranges and "{" DATE "}" syntax is also supported. This is passed directly to svn, see svn documentation for more details.

This can allow you to make partial mirrors when running fetch.

-::
--stdin::
Only used with the 'commit' command.

Read a list of commits from stdin and commit them in reverse order. Only the leading sha1 is read from each line, so git-rev-list --pretty=oneline output can be used.

--rmdir::
Only used with the 'commit' command.

Remove directories from the SVN tree if there are no files left behind. SVN can version empty directories, and they are not removed by default if there are no files left in them. git cannot version empty directories. Enabling this flag will make the commit to SVN act like git.

-e::
--edit::
Only used with the 'commit' command.

Edit the commit message before committing to SVN. This is off by default for objects that are commits, and forced on when committing tree objects.

COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS
---------------------
--no-ignore-externals::
Only used with the 'fetch' and 'rebuild' command.

By default, git-svn passes --ignore-externals to svn to avoid fetching svn:external trees into git. Pass this flag to enable externals tracking directly via git.

Versions of svn that do not support --ignore-externals are automatically detected and this flag will be automatically enabled for them.

Otherwise, do not enable this flag unless you know what you're doing.

--no-stop-on-copy::
Only used with the 'fetch' command.

By default, git-svn passes --stop-on-copy to avoid dealing with the copied/renamed branch directory problem entirely. A copied/renamed branch is the result of a <SVN_URL> being created in the past from a different source. These are problematic to deal with even when working purely with svn if you work inside subdirectories.

Do not use this flag unless you know exactly what you're getting yourself into. You have been warned.

Examples
~~~~~~~~

Tracking and contributing to an Subversion managed-project:

# Initialize a tree (like git init-db)::
git-svn init http://svn.foo.org/project/trunk
# Fetch remote revisions::
git-svn fetch
# Create your own branch to hack on::
git checkout -b my-branch git-svn-HEAD
# Commit only the git commits you want to SVN::

	git-svn commit <tree-ish> [<tree-ish_2> ...] 
# Commit all the git commits from my-branch that don't exist in SVN::
	git rev-list --pretty=oneline git-svn-HEAD..my-branch | git-svn commit
# Something is committed to SVN, pull the latest into your branch::
	git-svn fetch && git pull . git-svn-HEAD

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
-----------------
Merge tracking in Subversion is lacking and doing branched development with Subversion is cumbersome as a result. git-svn completely forgoes any automated merge/branch tracking on the Subversion side and leaves it entirely up to the user on the git side. It's simply not worth it to do a useful translation when the the original signal is weak.

TRACKING MULTIPLE REPOSITORIES OR BRANCHES
------------------------------------------
This is for advanced users, most users should ignore this section.

Because git-svn does not care about relationships between different branches or directories in a Subversion repository, git-svn has a simple hack to allow it to track an arbitrary number of related _or_ unrelated SVN repositories via one git repository. Simply set the GIT_SVN_ID environment variable to a name other other than "git-svn" (the default) and git-svn will ignore the contents of the $GIT_DIR/git-svn directory and instead do all of its work in $GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN_ID for that invocation.

ADDITIONAL FETCH ARGUMENTS
--------------------------
This is for advanced users, most users should ignore this section.

Unfetched SVN revisions may be imported as children of existing commits by specifying additional arguments to 'fetch'. Additional parents may optionally be specified in the form of sha1 hex sums at the command-line. Unfetched SVN revisions may also be tied to particular git commits with the following syntax:

svn_revision_number=git_commit_sha1

This allows you to tie unfetched SVN revision 375 to your current HEAD::

	git-svn fetch 375=$(git-rev-parse HEAD)

BUGS
----
If somebody commits a conflicting changeset to SVN at a bad moment (right before you commit) causing a conflict and your commit to fail, your svn working tree ($GIT_DIR/git-svn/tree) may be dirtied. The easiest thing to do is probably just to rm -rf $GIT_DIR/git-svn/tree and run 'rebuild'.

We ignore all SVN properties except svn:executable. Too difficult to map them since we rely heavily on git write-tree being _exactly_ the same on both the SVN and git working trees and I prefer not to clutter working trees with metadata files.

svn:keywords can't be ignored in Subversion (at least I don't know of a way to ignore them).

Author
------
Written by Eric Wong <[email protected]>.

Documentation
-------------
Written by Eric Wong <[email protected]>.

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Quoted 4 lines · Eric Wong

Hello, I've written a simple tool for interoperating between git and svn. I wrote this so I could use git to work on projects where other developers use Subversion. I really hate using svn, but some projects I work on require it, and svk isn't nearly as fast nor simple as git.

Great, I was doing some testing with git-svnimport for this, but I missed a tool to automatically commit to svn what I have in my GIT tree.

Quoted 5 lines

git-svn does not replace git-svnimport, git-svnimport handles branches and tags automatically, but is too inflexible about repository layouts to be useful for a good number of projects I follow, and of course git-svnimport can't commit to Subversion repositories :)

I am already using git-svnimport to keep a "mirror" of some subversion repositories, here (automatically udpated on crontab). Do you plan to allow "integration" with repositories that are just clones of git-svnimport'ed repositories?

I plan to keep using git-svnimport and the standard git tools to work using the "svn mirror on git" as the main repository, but I plan to use "git-svn commit" to commit to the SVN repositories. I want this "commit tool" to not affect the current repository in any way, just like git-push:
only send the commits to the remote repository and don't change anything in the local repository.

However, it seems that "git-svn commit" does some tasks assuming we are on a "git-svn aware" repository (e.g. the "resyncing" just after the commit). Would you accept patches to allow using "git-svn commit" to commit changes from any GIT repository (i.e. not "svn-git aware" repositories) to any SVN repository, just like "git-push" would work for a GIT repository?

However, I am not sure if the easier way would be changing git-svn to do this for me or writing a different script just for this task.

Quoted 6 lines

git-svn only cares about a single branch/trunk in SVN[1], but you can use as many branches in git as you want. This makes it much easier to use and allows it to handle just about any repository layout, not just those recommended in the SVN book/developers.

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Although importing changesets from SVN is mostly a linear affair, committing to SVN is the opposite. You may commit git tree objects in any order you want. It simply clobbers the existing svn tree as 'git-checkout -f' would, but tags file renames/copies carefully so users on the SVN side can see them. You can even do some wacky things with patch reordering.

Good, this is what I expect to be able to do when commiting to svn.

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Eduardo
author
#2 lore raw
Quoted 15 lines · Eduardo Pereira Habkost
Quoted 4 lines · Eric Wong

Hello, I've written a simple tool for interoperating between git and svn. I wrote this so I could use git to work on projects where other developers use Subversion. I really hate using svn, but some projects I work on require it, and svk isn't nearly as fast nor simple as git.

Great, I was doing some testing with git-svnimport for this, but I missed a tool to automatically commit to svn what I have in my GIT tree.

Quoted 5 lines

git-svn does not replace git-svnimport, git-svnimport handles branches and tags automatically, but is too inflexible about repository layouts to be useful for a good number of projects I follow, and of course git-svnimport can't commit to Subversion repositories :)

Quoted 4 lines

I am already using git-svnimport to keep a "mirror" of some subversion repositories, here (automatically udpated on crontab). Do you plan to allow "integration" with repositories that are just clones of git-svnimport'ed repositories?

It's possible, just not very obvious at the moment. git-svn was written as quickly as possible without regard to svnimport compatibility since I had some repos that didn't work with svnimport to begin with.

The 'ADDITIONAL FETCH ARGUMENTS' part of the manpage is worth reading for you. Basically, you can define equalities
"(svn revision number)=(git commit)" as arguments to git-svn fetch to add parents for all the revisions it imports.

If I were you, I'd only want git-svn to care about partial history, since you already have the rest of it from git-svnimport. You can do this:

svn_revno=<last svn revision number you imported from git-svnimport> git_commit=<equivalent commit sha1 name of svn_revno above> git-svn fetch --revision $svn_revno:HEAD $svn_revno=$git_commit

Quoted 14 lines

I plan to keep using git-svnimport and the standard git tools to work using the "svn mirror on git" as the main repository, but I plan to use "git-svn commit" to commit to the SVN repositories. I want this "commit tool" to not affect the current repository in any way, just like git-push:
only send the commits to the remote repository and don't change anything in the local repository.

However, it seems that "git-svn commit" does some tasks assuming we are on a "git-svn aware" repository (e.g. the "resyncing" just after the commit). Would you accept patches to allow using "git-svn commit" to commit changes from any GIT repository (i.e. not "svn-git aware" repositories) to any SVN repository, just like "git-push" would work for a GIT repository?

Quoted 2 lines

However, I am not sure if the easier way would be changing git-svn to do this for me or writing a different script just for this task.

You should be 95% there just by exporting the svn_checkout_tree() function to the command-line. Perhaps automating reading of the $svn_rev variable can be in order.

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Eric Wong
author
#3 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 git-svn: fix revision order when XML::Simple is not loaded

In reply to Eric Wong

Thanks to Emmanuel Guerin for finding the bug.

---

 contrib/git-svn/git-svn |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

98de7584b4991ab9c4025e36bfbfc10eacd17b8d

contrib/git-svn/git-svn +3 -3
index 62fc14f..ddd9579 100755
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ sub svn_log_raw {
 
 			# if we have an empty log message, put something there:
 			if (@svn_log) {
-				$svn_log[0]->{msg} ||= "\n";
+				$svn_log[$#svn_log]->{msg} ||= "\n";
 			}
 			next;
 		}
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ sub svn_log_raw {
 					date => "$tz $Y-$m-$d $H:$M:$S",
 					author => $author,
 					msg => '' );
-			unshift @svn_log, \%log_msg;
+			push @svn_log, \%log_msg;
 			$state = 'msg_start';
 			next;
 		}
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ sub svn_log_raw {
 		if ($state eq 'msg_start' && /^$/) {
 			$state = 'msg';
 		} elsif ($state eq 'msg') {
-			$svn_log[0]->{msg} .= $_."\n";
+			$svn_log[$#svn_log]->{msg} .= $_."\n";
 		}
 	}
 	close $log_fh or croak $?;
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1.2.0.gdee6
author
#4 lore raw

Re: [PATCH] git-svn: fix revision order when XML::Simple is not loaded

Just to add, XML::Simple is a recommended dependency. git-svn will work fine without it (after this patch) as long as the repository doesn't have any log messages that regurgitate or otherwise look like svn log output (most svn repositories are sane in this regard :)

I may add support for the SVN:: perl libraries in the future, but I'll always git-svn compatible with the command-line svn client and lazy load any non-standard libraries.

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Eric Wong
author
#5 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 git-svn: ensure fetch always works chronologically.

In reply to Eric Wong

We run svn log against a URL without a working copy for the first fetch, so we end up a log that's sorted from highest to lowest. That's bad, we always want lowest to highest. Just default to --revision 0:HEAD now if -r isn't specified for the first fetch.

Also sort the revisions after we get them just in case somebody accidentally reverses the argument to --revision for whatever reason.

Thanks again to Emmanuel Guerin for helping me find this.

---

 contrib/git-svn/git-svn |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

2ec4f205eaa3914a64205ea224292b9e27e06cdf

contrib/git-svn/git-svn +4 -3
index ddd9579..2caf057 100755
@@ -168,14 +168,15 @@ sub fetch {
 	my (@parents) = @_;
 	$SVN_URL ||= file_to_s("$GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN/info/url");
 	my @log_args = -d $SVN_WC ? ($SVN_WC) : ($SVN_URL);
-	if (-d $SVN_WC && !$_revision) {
-		$_revision = 'BASE:HEAD';
+	unless ($_revision) {
+		$_revision = -d $SVN_WC ? 'BASE:HEAD' : '0:HEAD';
 	}
-	push @log_args, "-r$_revision" if $_revision;
+	push @log_args, "-r$_revision";
 	push @log_args, '--stop-on-copy' unless $_no_stop_copy;
 
 	eval { require XML::Simple or croak $! };
 	my $svn_log = $@ ? svn_log_raw(@log_args) : svn_log_xml(@log_args);
+	@$svn_log = sort { $a->{revision} <=> $b->{revision} } @$svn_log;
 
 	my $base = shift @$svn_log or croak "No base revision!\n";
 	my $last_commit = undef;
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#6 lore raw
In reply to Eric Wong
Quoted 2 lines · Eric Wong

@ Junio: Is there room for this in the git distribution alongside git-svnimport?

Surely. Things that superficially do similar things are not necessarily mutually exclusive, if that is what you are worried about. There is not much incumbent advantage for tools that support a narrowly defined specific task (e.g. interfacing with foreign SCM X) on the periphery, while I would perhaps feel more hesitant to support 47 different variants of git-commit ;-).

Especially, from your description (I haven't looked at the code), its point is to give a better support for an alternative workflow from svnimport supports.

I was privately advised (by somebody I respect and trust) that I should not be too hesitant to expand the scope of the project. Also there are some interesting developments such as Martin's git-backed fake CVS server and Aneesh's gitview that I have been interested in, among other things.

Even having some experimental tools that are only starting to do useful things might be useful, if we had it in the git.git repository. For one thing, it would give more exposure to them and help improve things.

How about first adding a contrib/ directory and see how it goes?

author
#7 lore raw
Quoted 11 lines · Junio C Hamano
Quoted 2 lines · Eric Wong

@ Junio: Is there room for this in the git distribution alongside git-svnimport?

Surely. Things that superficially do similar things are not necessarily mutually exclusive, if that is what you are worried about. There is not much incumbent advantage for tools that support a narrowly defined specific task (e.g. interfacing with foreign SCM X) on the periphery, while I would perhaps feel more hesitant to support 47 different variants of git-commit ;-).

<snip>

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Even having some experimental tools that are only starting to do useful things might be useful, if we had it in the git.git repository. For one thing, it would give more exposure to them and help improve things.

Good to know. I fully agree on this point.

Quoted 1 line

How about first adding a contrib/ directory and see how it goes?

Sure thing. Don't worry about development history, there's hardly any as it was all done pretty quickly. Being able to draw from my experiences with svn-arch-mirror, arch-svn-merge (this one sucked), and git-archimport helped greatly; as did the very simple and flexible nature of git.

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Eric Wong
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In reply to Junio C Hamano
Quoted 7 lines · Junio C Hamano

should not be too hesitant to expand the scope of the project. Also there are some interesting developments such as Martin's git-backed fake CVS server and Aneesh's gitview that I have been interested in, among other things.

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Even having some experimental tools that are only starting to do useful things might be useful, if we had it in the git.git repository. For one thing, it would give more exposure to them and help improve things.

How about first adding a contrib/ directory and see how it goes?

I am all for it. Attaching the latest gitview. This include branch and tag display support and also the option to save diffs in file.

For the screenshot
http://kvaneesh.livejournal.com

-aneesh

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Quoted 6 lines · Aneesh Kumar
Quoted 2 lines · Junio C Hamano

How about first adding a contrib/ directory and see how it goes?

I am all for it. Attaching the latest gitview. This include branch and tag display support and also the option to save diffs in file.

Now how do you want to proceed? I could just dump the thing in say contrib/gitview subdirectory, and then afterwards you could either keep feeding me patches or sending me pull requests.

There are two downsides doing things that way:

(1) you would lose the development history so far;

(2) if gitview script is the only thing you care about, I suspect you would want to have that at the project toplevel, like the "coolest merge ever" gitk merge did, but that is not what you will be getting.

Ideally, if we had a proper "subproject" support, I would merge your project with full development history so far as a subproject, with your toplevel grafted at contrib/gitview subdirectory. That would not have neither of the above two downsides. But that hasn't happened yet (and that was one of the reasons that I was reluctant initially -- I was hoping that subproject stuff would materialize sooner).

For now, I'd do the easy approach (easy for me, that is) with both of the two downsides. If we end up doing "subproject" thing, we could rectify things later, if this is OK with you.

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Quoted 30 lines · Junio C Hamano
Quoted 6 lines · Aneesh Kumar
Quoted 2 lines · Junio C Hamano

How about first adding a contrib/ directory and see how it goes?

I am all for it. Attaching the latest gitview. This include branch and tag display support and also the option to save diffs in file.

Now how do you want to proceed? I could just dump the thing in say contrib/gitview subdirectory, and then afterwards you could either keep feeding me patches or sending me pull requests.

There are two downsides doing things that way:

(1) you would lose the development history so far;

(2) if gitview script is the only thing you care about, I suspect you would want to have that at the project toplevel, like the "coolest merge ever" gitk merge did, but that is not what you will be getting.

Ideally, if we had a proper "subproject" support, I would merge your project with full development history so far as a subproject, with your toplevel grafted at contrib/gitview subdirectory. That would not have neither of the above two downsides. But that hasn't happened yet (and that was one of the reasons that I was reluctant initially -- I was hoping that subproject stuff would materialize sooner).

Quoted 4 lines

For now, I'd do the easy approach (easy for me, that is) with both of the two downsides. If we end up doing "subproject" thing, we could rectify things later, if this is OK with you.

It would be fine with me if you just drop the script to contrib/gitview directory.

-aneesh

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Quoted 2 lines · Aneesh Kumar

It would be fine with me if you just drop the script to contrib/gitview directory.

OK. One final question. Actually, two. Is the original author Scott James Remnant OK with adding the script to a GPLv2 project? Also do you want your HP affiliation appear in the author field or your gmail address?

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Quoted 12 lines · Junio C Hamano
Quoted 2 lines · Aneesh Kumar

It would be fine with me if you just drop the script to contrib/gitview directory.

OK. One final question. Actually, two. Is the original author Scott James Remnant OK with adding the script to a GPLv2 project? Also do you want your HP affiliation appear in the author field or your gmail address?

Scott James code was motivation to start the project. But if you compare the two code lot of changes are done. Infact only thing that remain now is how i draw using the cairo which is also modified a bit.

This is the COPYING file that scott had in bzrk project.

http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/bzr/bzrk/COPYING

But gitview is quiet different from bzrk. I just wanted to add it to the code that i started with bzrk code.

Regarding HP affiliation i guess it should remain. In short you can add the file as I send you

-aneesh

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Dear diary, on Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:20:01PM CET, I got a letter where Aneesh Kumar <[email protected]> said that...

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Scott James code was motivation to start the project. But if you compare the two code lot of changes are done. Infact only thing that remain now is how i draw using the cairo which is also modified a bit.

This is the COPYING file that scott had in bzrk project.

http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/bzr/bzrk/COPYING

But gitview is quiet different from bzrk. I just wanted to add it to the code that i started with bzrk code.

IANAL but AFAIK even if the code is quite different by now, if you _started_ with bzrk code the copyright of the original author is still lurking inside your code - it's basically a continuous series of directly derived works.

OTOH, what am I not getting? The bzrk's license seems to be GPLv2, our license seems to be GPLv2, ...

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Quoted 13 lines · Petr Baudis

Dear diary, on Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:20:01PM CET, I got a letter where Aneesh Kumar <[email protected]> said that...

Quoted 10 lines

Scott James code was motivation to start the project. But if you compare the two code lot of changes are done. Infact only thing that remain now is how i draw using the cairo which is also modified a bit.

This is the COPYING file that scott had in bzrk project.

http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/bzr/bzrk/COPYING

But gitview is quiet different from bzrk. I just wanted to add it to the code that i started with bzrk code.

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IANAL but AFAIK even if the code is quite different by now, if you _started_ with bzrk code the copyright of the original author is still lurking inside your code - it's basically a continuous series of directly derived works.

OTOH, what am I not getting? The bzrk's license seems to be GPLv2, our license seems to be GPLv2, ...

Correct. That way i guess we can add the code the way i sent. In any case i am marking this mail to scott. So if he has anything to add he can let us know

-aneesh