[Outreachy] Introduction: Tanga Joris, option parsing project

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Hi everyone,

My name is Tanga Joris. I'm a software engineer based in Nairobi, Kenya and I am about to graduate from university:)

I'm an Outreachy applicant for the December 2026 round, and I'd like to work on the project "Improve how command arguments and options are scanned and parsed". I am really sorry for starting late; I hope you are okay with that.

I've been interested in version control for a long time, and I've run into parsing problems in my own projects. In a CLI tool I built, a global --addr flag only works before the subcommand: "kiln run --addr x" fails because the subcommand's flag set doesn't know about it. I later noticed Git has the same rule, for example "git remote -v" has to come before the subcommand, and that got me curious about how Git scans and parses its arguments.

For my microproject, I'd like to convert the " ... and %d more." message in builtin/checkout.c (suggest_reattach()) from _() to Q_(). So far I haven't found anyone working on it in the archive, but please let me know if someone already is.

Thanks, Tanga