Re: Git in GSoC 2014

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 26, 2014, 11:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20140226113028.GB3599@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAFFjANRqKqq_f9SCR4vP3YKUpfk1J2RQdB9G4gnY2OcZivzhXQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:24:13PM +0100, Vicent Martí wrote:

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> > One thing I noticed after tg/index-v4-format is both libgit2 and jgit
> > do not seem to support index v4. So we could add "index v4 support on
> > libgit2" to the idea page. It's a relatively small task though once
> > you get a hang on index format.
> 
> That sounds like a nice task for the Summer of Code too, specially
> with the current effort to make Index v4 more visible in Core Git.

Yeah, I'd agree. Want to write it up?

> I wonder if anybody from JGit would also be interested on mentoring
> for the equivalent task (index v4 on JGit). I've CC'ed Shawn Pearce.

A project that added to both libgit2 and JGit would be cool, but I don't know if that is asking too much of the student (multiple languages and projects is going to increase the time spent on non-code friction).

-Peff