Re: Hackontest ideas?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 29, 2008, 05:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20080729053110.GD11947@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080729001016.GT32057@genesis.frugalware.org>

Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:01:03AM +0200, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > 
> > (What feature in Git or a Git-related tool would you implement, given 24
> > hours staight and unlimited pizza supply?)
> 
> Restartable git-clone? :-)
> 
> It was a GSoC idea this year, but in the end nobody started working on
> it.
> 
> (I was about to work on it, but finally my 'builtin-merge' application
> was accepted.)

Yea, we eventually decided it was probably too small for a GSoC project. Given how quickly you put together your git-merge project, I'm actually happy we got you working on git-merge and not restartable clone, as I think you may have finished restartable clone in 24 hours and then said "now what mr. mentor?" ;-)

Pasky, et.al.:

How about smart fetch/push over HTTP? E.g. a CGI (or extension to gitweb) that does native pack transport over HTTP rather than dumb object traversal with GET and WebDAV LOCK/PUT. Note that the push side doesn't need to support tell-me-more extension, making it a fairly trivial GET, POST (or PUT) sequence.

-- 
Shawn.