From: Michał Łowicki Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:04:20 GMT Subject: Re: gsoc - Better git log --follow support Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi! This is the first plan for this gsoc project. Jonathan Nieder described me how --follow works and pointed me to a lot of sources for studying. He also suggested where I should start a how it should look like (thanks for that). 25.04 - 15.06 1) study the revision walking code * understand its stages, * improve Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt (it doesn't explain revision walking code stages so I could save others some time in the future) 2) study the pathspec matching + limiting and rename detaction API * possiblity to update/improve documenation here as well 3) figure out what state --follow will need to maintain, where it will fit into the revision walking process and design new architecture for it 16.06 - 26-08 4) implementation I plan to spend about 2 months for the first 3 points. It's all about poking the right developers and sending question to the mailing list. I'll try to send some updates soon when I get through some basic lecture and the most important code. Any suggestions/ideas are as always welcome. Be prepare for many questions from my side :) Greetings, Michał Łowicki