A detailed discussion of the impedance-mismatch problems in translating Subversion histories to git import streams, and related issues including (a) exactly how and why the existing conversion tools are so weak, and (b) how reposurgeon does better.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4071 I wrote the new dumpfile-format documentation so that I would know enough to do *this*. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient...The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis