Re: [RFC/GSoC] Introduction

From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 13, 2016, 15:50 UTC
Message-ID: <1924FEBB-46F2-46EE-B190-5289588D4BED@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <56E3BE3E.9070105@gmail.com>

Hi Sidhant,

thanks for your interest in the 'Git Beginner' mode topic. I completely understand your motivation for the topic as your Git learning experience matches mine. However, please be aware that this is no easy project. The final implementation might be easy but it will require hard work to come up with a design for the beginner mode that the list considers to accept. That being said, I am eager to learn about your ideas on the topic :-)

Based on my previous discussions with Junio [3] I think on of the most important aspects is to ensure that Git does not become harder to use. I thought a while about this requirement and I wonder if a wrapper called 'ggit' (guarded Git) could be a solution. The wrapper would pass all command line arguments to 'git' and check for potentially destructive commands. If such a command is detected then the user would see a warning. If the command is not destructive then 'ggit' would print a short instruction how to "undo" it. The ordinary Git user would not be affected at all by the wrapper. A novice Git user who is unsure about his/her command line usage could use `ggit` as a safety net.

I am curious about your opinions on this kind of approach. I wonder if people would actually use such a wrapper.

Thanks, Lars

[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/285893/focus=286749

On 12 Mar 2016, at 07:59, Sidhant Sharma <tigerkid001@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi everyone!
> 
> I am Sidhant Sharma, from Delhi, India. I'm a third year Software Engineering
> student at Delhi Technological University. I am looking to contribute to
> Git via GSoC 2016. I have also worked on one of the microprojects [1]. I've
> been using git for nearly two years now, and continue to be surprised by the
> vast number of features this powerful DVCS possesses. I want to contribute to
> Git because it has become a daily-use tool for me and it feels exciting to
> be a part of the community that makes effective collaborative development
> possible.
> 
> I would like to work on the project titled 'Git Beginner mode', and have been
> reading up the discussions that took place regarding this [2]. The reason I wish
> to take this project in particular is that when I initially started out with
> Git, and was still discovering how things really worked, I sometimes felt the
> need for some sort of safety-latch to keep me from making destructive and/or
> irreversible changes. So, this project gives me the opportunity to implement
> something on these lines for the future beginners. I believe a lot of discussion
> on the idea is due. I'm reading up on the commands that were mentioned on the
> project page to better understand what the project entails, and trying to design
> a solution for this, without making git harder to use or getting in the user's
> learning. I would really appreciate your comments, suggestions and critique on
> this.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Sidhant Sharma
> 
> [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288035
> [2]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/285893/focus=286613
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