Since pepple are posting Subversion 2.0 wishlists, here's mine. I write
as the person who has probably done more repository conversion work
and repository surgery than any other single person.
1. DVCS-style committer IDs.
That is, not "esr" but "Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com>". As far as
I can tell the svn:author property is never interpreted in any other
way than by testing field equality, so I can't see this change being
complicated.
The full DVCS ID would have to be declared in an .svnconfig analogous
to .gitconfig, but I don't think that'ds a huge problem. Obvious
fallback rules are obvious.
Advantages: Now repository identities aren't tied to the local
/etc/passwd, so histories don't become inintelligible when you rehost
them.
2. Fast-export dump of repositories via svndump.
For reasons already discussed. I'd be willing to help with this.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
-- Ramsey Clark
