Re: [GSoC] My Git Dev Blog

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date: May 30, 2021, 17:30 UTC
Message-ID: <4d51b7bf-966c-c3fc-ce1a-62c0db4af29a@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <B932C097-1B91-4D59-9CC7-1B91C86FA1A1@gmail.com>

Hi Atharva,

On 30/05/21 12:37 pm, Atharva Raykar wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On 22-May-2021, at 22:12, Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> I will update this thread every week when I make a new post.
> 
> A new blog post is out at: http://atharvaraykar.me/gitnotes/week2
>

Nice post!

Just one suggestion. While reading, I felt that it would've been nice if it had a few links. For instance,

> The patch that I ended up sending this week is heavily based on
> the work of two generations of GSoC programmers who struggled

 > over this problem.

The text above could've had a link somewhere to the patch you sent to the mailing list:

https://public-inbox.org/git/20210528081224.69163-1-raykar.ath@gmail.com/

> I studied Shourya’s stalled patch, parts of which had already
> been reviewed.

... and the above text could've had a link to Shourya's patch series you mention:

https://public-inbox.org/git/20201214231939.644175-1-periperidip@gmail.com/

> In the spirit of Git being “the stupid content tracker”, I have
> decided to actually live up to that phrase and keep a track of
> my stupid moments in this section of my weekly reports, in the
> hopes that there is something here to learn from.

Good initiative. It indeed might turn out to be very helpful. I won't surprised if it even turns out to help you, sometime in the future ;-)

> For whatever reason, I thought of the most convoluted explanations,
> not realising that they actually don’t make any sense. Thoughts like:
> “Is the memory buffer not having tab separated tokens? Are they
> separated by some special whitespace character??”

I could totally feel you here. Things would get better over time.

Hope this helps, Sivaraam