How to start contributing

From: Πλάτων Κιορπελίδης <trickygitninja@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 18, 2018, 12:49 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJKt3eP+BZkfK_yn3KYWMgmJB8_18UFr5eizmdGOY_4vM5=AYA@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I’m a computer science student and I’m interested in contributing to git. I’ve read the GSoC git page with the ideas and micro-projects as I’m interested in participating next summer. I’ve also read the Documentation at the GitHub mirror. I’ve never worked on such large project and I don’t know where to start from. I’ve picked this microproject from the GSoC page:

Make “git tag –contains <id>” less chatty if <id> is invalid
“git tag – contains <id>” prints the whole help text if <id> is
invalid. It should only show the error message instead.
Thread: https://public-inbox.org/git/20160118215433.GB24136@sigill.intra.peff.net/

This bug is solved using the 3rd option, but I suspect that it’s still here because the 2nd option is preferred.

How should I tackle this?

Thanks.