{"thread":{"id":"52569","subject":"Fwd: My Introduction and a Doubt","startedAt":"2020-01-05T06:02:22Z","lastAt":"2020-01-06T23:07:26Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Nirmal Khedkar","Johannes Schindelin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"389242","messageId":"CAFFaXsx3Mtrq4mEGq6GYct7ZcRtucmZdRG-PQmjLrvVVTfq2Wg@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"52569","inReplyTo":"CAFFaXszUdyfun1W0TuvJuRihLo7Mz-XYL13Fm5gCv_gWrir-_Q@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Fwd: My Introduction and a Doubt","fromName":"Nirmal Khedkar","fromEmail":"nirmalhk7@gmail.com","sentAt":"2020-01-05T06:01:42Z","receivedAt":"2020-01-05T06:02:22Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"nirmalhk7@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/880886fe715992472abdb43dba5bd70d7398b6462cc968b7689e7a70b8c445eb?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Hey everybody!\n\nI'd love to use this email to introduce myself to the community and\nask for help.\n\nI'm Nirmal Khedkar, student from India. I love making end user\napplications, and in this FOSS world, there simply aren't many as big\nand impactful as Git. I'd love to contribute Git for GSoC 2020 as well\nas for long-term.\n\nNow the doubt:\nI'm trying to wrap up the issue mentioned here\n(https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/486) : basically allowing\ngit bisect to work from subdirectories.  I do consider myself okay in\nC but I'm still kind-of stuck here: hence emailing this on the mailing\nlist.\n\n When you do \"git bisect\" in a subdirectory, an error \"You need to run\nthis command from the toplevel of the working tree.\" is raised. The\nerror is raised in \"git-sh-setup.sh\" and the command begins execution\nin \"bisect--helper.c\", but I cant understand how the error appears.\nAdditionally I'd love to know how the C files linkwith the numerous\nshell scripts within Git.\n\nI've searched all I could within the Git project, but if there's any\nexisting documentation on this, please let me know.\n\nThanks in advance!\nNirmal Khedkar\n"},{"id":"389296","messageId":"nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2001070007011.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet","threadId":"52569","inReplyTo":"CAFFaXsx3Mtrq4mEGq6GYct7ZcRtucmZdRG-PQmjLrvVVTfq2Wg@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Fwd: My Introduction and a Doubt","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2020-01-06T23:07:23Z","receivedAt":"2020-01-06T23:07:26Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Hi Nirmal,\n\nOn Sun, 5 Jan 2020, Nirmal Khedkar wrote:\n\n> Hey everybody!\n>\n> I'd love to use this email to introduce myself to the community and\n> ask for help.\n>\n> I'm Nirmal Khedkar, student from India. I love making end user\n> applications, and in this FOSS world, there simply aren't many as big\n> and impactful as Git. I'd love to contribute Git for GSoC 2020 as well\n> as for long-term.\n>\n> Now the doubt:\n> I'm trying to wrap up the issue mentioned here\n> (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/486) : basically allowing\n> git bisect to work from subdirectories.  I do consider myself okay in\n> C but I'm still kind-of stuck here: hence emailing this on the mailing\n> list.\n>\n>  When you do \"git bisect\" in a subdirectory, an error \"You need to run\n> this command from the toplevel of the working tree.\" is raised. The\n> error is raised in \"git-sh-setup.sh\" and the command begins execution\n> in \"bisect--helper.c\", but I cant understand how the error appears.\n> Additionally I'd love to know how the C files linkwith the numerous\n> shell scripts within Git.\n>\n> I've searched all I could within the Git project, but if there's any\n> existing documentation on this, please let me know.\n\nI answered on that ticket:\nhttps://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/486#issuecomment-571355006\n\nCiao,\nJohannes\n"}]}