[GSoC] Introduction and Project Discussion

Hi,

I am a first year computer engineering student from India, studying at the Silver Oak College of Engineering and Technology, I had already put part of this in "[PATCH/GSoC] pull: implement --[no-]autostash for usage when rebasing", but at that time I didn't notice that another student was already working on the same change, and I would like to apologise for that, it was totally unintentional.

I have since picked another microproject, "Make “git tag --contains <id>” less chatty if is invalid", and after looking at the code, it would have the same effect for any command with has a "--with" or "--contains" option, which currently are 'tag', 'branch', and 'for-each-ref'.

I have worked on OSS in the past (and am currently semi-active as well, working as a device maintainer with CyanogenMod, an android distribution)

I would like to work on "Git remote whitelist/blacklist". The current example on the ideas page [1] looks like something that wouldn't be too much trouble to implement. Still need to dig a bit more on that.

I also saw Thomas Gummerer's idea on the list [2], seems like a reflog on steroids? I still don't understand the entirety of that, so some clarity on that would be nice. It also seems a bit complex

Apart from this, I was also interested in the "git config --unset
improvement" idea, as currently something as basic like
`git config --global foo.bar 1 &&
 git config --global --unset foo.bar`
leaves a section [foo] in the config.
I would like to try to solve this in some way without having to
rewrite the parser, but if that can't be done easily then I'm open to
doing it any other way as well.

So, to sum it up, I would like to work on "Git remote whitelist/blacklist", and if the mentors deem it to not take too much time / not be too hard of a task, I could also try to look at the configuration parser.

Thanks, Chirayu Desai

[1]: http://git.github.io/SoC-2016-Ideas/ [2]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/286708