Re: GSoC 2011 : one more interested student.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 4, 2011, 22:31 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <4D9912F8.60002@gmail.com>

Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com> writes:

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> * Complete some libgit2 features
> Implementing a few key features seems like a great way to understand
> the way a VCS works. I would be interesting in working on the diff
> command and on the network related commands (git-push, git-fetch).
>
> * Build a minimal Git client based on libgit2
> It seems to be a quite popular task :) Hacking on this small git
> client would be a nice experience and would help me understanding how
> libgit2 works.

It seems that libgit2 project got GSoC slots out of the git project even though they didn't apply themselves ;-) But if you are interested in the git project proper, there also are ideas on the wiki page.

> * Build in more external commands
> I am wondering why these commands should be rewritten. You know what
> they say : "if it is not broken, do not fix it" :-p Do these commands
> currently have performance issues ?

Performance won't be the primary issue; we would want to lose POSIX shell and Perl dependency for Windows folks and that is the primary gain from that part of the project.