Re: [GSoC 2010] The 1st week

From: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Date: May 25, 2010, 08:58 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTilEoK-CZR8C16ageafSnA_TNyp3nXHVAm67_LS3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100525062457.GB10898@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:57:15PM +0800, Bo Yang wrote:
>
>> What's done:
>> 1. Get familiar with Git code base and have read the code of 'git
>> blame', revision walk, 'git log'.
>> 2. Try to make some patches for git:
>>     1. * by/blame-doc-m-c (2010-05-06) 1 commit, in 'next'
>>     2. * by/log-follow (2010-05-10) 4 commits, in 'next'
>>     3. the '--graph improvement', in discuss and I think ready for inclusion.
>> 3. Start to write some code for the line level browser feature. And it
>> is in the 'playaround' branch in http://repo.or.cz/w/line.git . Now,
>> the code can parse multiple line ranges for multiple files in only one
>> revision.
>
> You didn't mention
>
>  4. Contributing to other discussion of --follow on the list.
>
> It is a small thing, perhaps, but I am very happy to see a GSoC student
> actively participating in the community.

Thanks! :)

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> Speaking of which, I haven't finished polishing the --follow patches
> from our earlier thread. I was taking a look at making history
> simplification (including --parents) work. Are you going to be doing any
> work on that this summer? If so, I will probably just drop it for now
> and let you deal with it. :)

Yeah, the line level browser will touch the parents rewriting things and I think the feature of line level history is a super-set of the '--follow' things, so you can leave it with me. And in my plan, I will complete this in next month. :)

Regards! Bo

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