many moons ago, before git was released, I put svn in front of clearcase and had people locally commit to that, trap into hooks of svn, check the file out of cl

many moons ago, before git was released, I put svn in front of clearcase and had people locally commit to that, trap into hooks of svn, check the file out of clearcase commit and recheck-in. the whole engineering group I worked in switched to using the svn and sped up, although user contribution was thrown out in the clear case log.