From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:31:01 GMT Subject: Re: GSoC 2011 : one more interested student. Message-ID: <7vtyed7ioq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4D9912F8.60002@gmail.com> Cyril Roelandt writes: > * 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.