Re: [GSoC] Scripts to be conversted into builtins

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 17, 2018, 20:51 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0QMqUDmBSYT1_-BcUcfCFfxTef8PAddHzcDv+a0W+44Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87r2oid0df.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 17 2018, Yash Yadav jotted:
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>> Hello,
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>> I am a student going through the GSoC process.
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>> In the project ideas listed there is one idea talking of conversion of
>> scripts to builtins. This interests me but no pointer forward is given
>> and I'd like to dive more into that idea and go through the script(s).
>>
>> So, where should I look further from here?
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> One good place to start is to start reading at:
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>     git log -p --stat --full-diff --reverse 74703a1e4d.. -- 'builtin/*--helper.c'
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> And then search for git-.*\.sh in your pager. These are a bunch of
> commits where the bisect, rebase and submodule helpers have had their
> shellscript code incrementally replaced by C.

Yeah, and we have been proposing this kind of GSoC projects for a number of years now, so we have had a number of GSoC students doing this kind of projects, and therefore a lot of information about their projects is available in the mailing list archive.