Re: [GSoC] Discussion of "Submodule related work" project

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Mar 13, 2017, 18:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbLr=aSu-g83obmj3XCMMYbuody6Q_FreCmQcqpyX+_rQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170310211348.18887-1-me@vtolstov.org>

> So... I thought those items listed in "Submodule related work" are
> considered too small to be complete projects separately, and they
> are just "subprojects" of bigger project (maybe I have this thought
> because I can't estimate complexity before truly digging in).

When writing these points, I was not sure about the complexity myself, but rather I wanted to produce a lot of different potential projects, which can be discussed if they sound exciting and are of good size.

> In your response you talk about them as independent projects...
> This means I can take only any one of them as starting point for
> my proposal? Or maybe I misunderstood you?

Well I think some of them are too small to stand alone for a full GSoC project. Others have a good size and complexity for GSoC already.

> If it is true, than i'll try to take sh->C transition for submodule
> command,

For shell -> C transitions, see 65e1449614d b7d2a15b9f5 307de75c4 dec034a34e as all of them are rewrites from sh -> C for different commands. You might find common patterns (e.g. what is all needed for a conversion, such as slight updates to tests or documentation; certainly updating the build process in the Makefile, and of course the code translated).

Most of these conversions, start out with a patch that is quite a literal translation and then afterwards add in optimizations.

Another approach for the conversion is outlined in73c2779f42 (builtin-am: implement skeletal builtin am). I am not sure how easy this approach is for a submodule specific command.

> and as addirional part of my whole project also this:
> https://public-inbox.org/git/1488913150.8812.0@smtp.yandex.ru/T/

Yeah, that is also a good task :) Thanks for bringing it up.

> Does it sound good? If does, then I'll begin to work on my proposal.

Sure.

Thanks, Stefan