Hi, I've been putting this off for some time now- it's so much easier to write code than to write English :p Anyway, here it is- a massive status update.
It's been a few weeks since I got partial committer access, and ~80 commits later, this is what we have: Firstly, thanks to Daniel for motivating me and driving me to submit the series to the list, and guiding me through everything. Without him, I'd probably not have finished svnrdump to begin with. The command line interface and argument parsing library is ready- thanks to Bert and lots of others for getting me started with this. The interface is solid and looks like the one used in the other SVN tools. The dump functionality is also complete- thanks to Stefan's review and MANY others for cleaning it up. It's however hit a brick wall now because of missing headers in the RA layer. Until I (or someone else) figures out how to fix the RA layer, we can't do better than the XFail copy-and-modify test I've committed. It's quite mature and dumps surprisingly fast though. I'm tempted to run benchmarks, but I haven't done it yet because I fear I might be biased towards the tool :p The load functionality is also quite complete, thanks to Bert et al for helping me debug all the cryptic errors. The code is mostly unreviewed though- there might be plenty of bugs and code cleanup opportunities. Not to say that I've stopped working on it- just that the work has become less challenging, now that all the tests pass :) TODO: - Write more tests and start using svnrdump for real! Advertise it, especially to developers of other versioning systems looking to communicate with SVN. Remember how this project started out? - More optimizations. Since svnrdump is already so fast compared to the other tools, I think we can squeeze some more speed out of it. - Huge documentation effort. svnrdump is a hack- I just did what I felt like and got it to work somehow. It's very unlike svnmucc, which does things by the book. - Build more infrastructure around svnrdump- I've mostly used existing SVN API. Although a lot of new functions were suggested, I never really got down to writing them. - Make dumpfile v3 the de-facto standard and improve it for optimized loading/ generation. The former part was suggested by Stefan. - Integrate it into svnadmin etc as appropriate. I think there's enough work here for a mini-GSoC project? - GitHub support (?) -- I saw this discussed on IRC somewhere, but I didn't understand this myself. Can someone clarify? -- Ram
