The SVN commands

[shmuelie]

I (sadly) have to work with SVN repositories at work and having the svn command work would be awesome. Has any though been put into them? Would there be any objection to me looking into getting them started?

[Jaykul]

I wouldn't object on principle, but I would be mildly surprised if they were accessible through libgit the way the rest of this is done...

[shmuelie]

Sadly, though I'm not shocked either, libgit doesn't expose the svn commands. Would you be apposed to my text parsing methods? I do admit this would mean a dependency on having git installed for using the SVN commands but that would only be to use them.

[Jaykul]

I think that once you have that completely different external dependencies, at that point I would suggest it's a separate module. I think @SamuelEnglard is working a similar module based on parsing git.exe (see #53), it might be a better fit? 😉

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Honestly though -- I'm fine with the idea of putting SVN commands in this repo, just for the sake of collaborating on what things mean. I'm permanently disappointed that neither Posh-Hg nor Posh-Git was interested in my PRs to unify and make their configurations generic so I could share the prompt settings across them.

We should do it as a separate PSGit.SVN.psm1 or something though, which would take a RequiredModules = PSGit to connect them if there's

[shmuelie]

I deserved that 😛 lol

Sure. In my own work I found myself creating helper cmdlets that combined git and svn so not having to text parse the git side will be nice!

[shmuelie]

In looking into git svn it's actually a perl script that calls SVN native or GIT native methods. Wondering if replacing that perl with PowerShell directly may be the solution.

[dahlbyk]

I'm permanently disappointed that neither Posh-Hg nor Posh-Git was interested in my PRs to unify and make their configurations generic so I could share the prompt settings across them.

Still sorry about that... I aspire to be a better maintainer than Keith of 2013. 😬 Fortunately, Git won so nobody cares about Hg anymore. 😀

[Jaykul]

Sad but true(ish). Github won the game for git.

@SamuelEnglard possibly. I don't know what the feature-set of git svn is, but I'm sure that if you were going to adopt a PowerShell wrapper for libgit as your source control interface, but needed to work against svn ... integrating migration/bridge stuff for SVN would be worth considering -- if you were going to do that, you could look for a .net assembly that would let you work directly on objects 😉

[shmuelie]

@Jaykul you read my mind 😉