Re: Git project and GSoC 2026

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 9:28 PM Kaartic Sivaraam
> <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just a gentle nudge for the project ideas. The deadline to apply for GSoC is Feb 3 18:00 UTC. We need the ideas page ready a couple of days before it at least.
>
> Thanks for the nudge!
>
>> Feel free to chime in to suggest ideas that would be achievable by someone new-ish to the community. If you're doubtful whether an idea would be relevant for GSoC, feel free to share the same and we can discuss it.
>
> Here are ideas I came up with:

>
> 1) Continue the current work on removing global variables.
>
> 2) Finish, and then maybe improve, some work Eric Ju started a long
> time ago on `git cat-file`.
>
> 3) Improve git-backfill, or maybe a different command, so it can
> remove large local blobs when they are available on a promisor remote
> (for clients who want to get back disk space).
>
> 4) Implement some kind of fetch order when more than 1 promisor remote
> is configured (this order could be passed from servers to clients
> through the promisor-remote protocol to make sure the fetches happen
> in the optimal order).
>
> 5) Make the promisor-remote protocol useful when the server wants to
> advertise "better-connected" remotes (not just remotes the server
> uses) as Junio suggested some time ago (see
> Documentation/gitprotocol-v2.adoc).
>
> 6) Improve `git repo info` so it can show more information than now.
>
> 7) Improve `git repo structure` so it can show more stats than now.
>
> 8) Improve fast-export/fast-import and maybe git-repo-filter regarding
> commit and/or tag signatures. This might conflict with GitLab people
> (including me) possibly working on that soon though.
>
> I would be willing to mentor any of them, but I don't have much
> knowledge on `git repo`, so I think it makes more sense for me to
> avoid 6) and 7).