Re: [GSoC microproject] Add XDG support to the credential-store helper

> Hi,
> 
> Last year, on the ideas page:
> 
> http://git.github.io/SoC-2014-Ideas.html
> 
> we also had the following improvement:
> 
> "in some cases, git bisect may test too many merge bases, thus slowing
> down the bisection (making it closer to linear than logarithmic)."
> 
> so you could work on that too.
> 
> And if you really want and have time you can also rewrite
> git-bisect.sh into a builtin command. There is already
> builtin/bisect--helper.c where you can put some migrated code step by
> step.
> 

> First, it looks like another student started working on the same
> microproject. Did you have a look at what he did? If you didn't, you
> probably should, so that reviewers don't need to tell you what they
> already told the other student. And if you did, you should tell it,
> and maybe explain what you did differently and why.
> 
> If it looks like the other student is more advanced on this subject,
> you might want to try another microproject. And if all the
> microprojects are already taken, you might want to ask the list for
> other microprojects, or you may want to have a look at the many merge
> bases improvement above. (You could start by having a look at
> check_merge_bases() in "bisect.c" and by creating a script or better a
> test case that reproduces the problem, see
> t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh.)
>