Re: Git in Outreachy?

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 21, 2021, 15:35 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0xjUWK7B82xEerX4e_pkZ-BATKwjNcEjg4AxB4mipL1g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAOLTT8S8TxuTmddGp2WGoPtTc3gwGXzizBfVzKd87otRw7Dpiw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 7:39 AM ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> 于2021年9月20日周一 下午10:52写道：
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 9:45 AM ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> wrote:

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> > > I haven't thought of any good projects for the time being,
> > > Christian, any ideas?
> >
> > I already suggested the following project upthread:
> >
> > > > About project ideas, maybe continuing Hariom Verma's GSoC 2020 "Unify
> > > > ref-filter formats with other \-\-pretty formats" project could be and
> > > > idea, though maybe it could interact too much with ZheNing Hu
> > > > continuing his GSoC 2021 "Use ref-filter formats in `git cat-file`"
> > > > project.
> >
> > and you replied:
> >
> > > If the project idea is related to Hariom or my GSoC project, I think I can
> > > provide a lot of help. :)  I can help them as a mentor.
> >
> > so I am ok to co-mentor this project with you.
> >
> > If you are still ok, I will submit it.
>
> Yeah, I am ok. grateful.

I submitted it. You should see it and be able to register as a co-mentor there:

https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/

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> I am still looking at the code in ref-filter.c these two days, I deeply
> doubt whether we can add a --no-sort option to git for-each-ref,
>
> Inspired by Peff's experimental patches [1], I think the --no-sort option
> may improve the performance of ref-filter by avoiding the execution
> of ref_array_sort().
>
> I don't know if this can be regarded as a micro-project.

If you think that such a patch is likely to be accepted and that would take you less than a few hours to prepare and submit, then it can probably be regarded as a micro-project, and you are welcome to send a pull request to add it to the micro-project page.

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> This may require the help of this patch of mine: [2]
> which use list api for ref_sorting. This may can help eliminate unnecessary
> sorting.
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> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/YTTC2IUO1ZmTOEoR@coredump.intra.peff.net/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1025.git.1629882532.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/

Then please add this information to the description of the micro-project.

Thanks!