From: Christian Couder Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 20:51:06 GMT Subject: Re: [GSoC] Scripts to be conversted into builtins Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87r2oid0df.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 17 2018, Yash Yadav jotted: > >> Hello, >> >> I am a student going through the GSoC process. >> >> 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? > > One good place to start is to start reading at: > > git log -p --stat --full-diff --reverse 74703a1e4d.. -- 'builtin/*--helper.c' > > 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.