Re: [GSoC] Query regarding microproject

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 4, 2019, 09:05 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD13R=eVG05BWeF+d=KTQt0o6ZV0av2dZT8CQp7hPWfELw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:54 AM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 2:43 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> > Umang Parmar <umangjparmar@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I am interested in micro project "Add configuration options for
> > > some commonly used command-line”. So can you point me out to
> > > implementations of some current commands which have configuration
> > > options and also for which command to add config options.
> >
> > It is not a homework assignment.
>
> True. But the last step could be really intimidating at the beginning.
> I'll give another hint, do
>
> git log --oneline -- Documentation/config.txt
>
> Look for some interesting changes (e.g. "add something") then "git
> show" on that commit, which gives some starting point to focus on.

Yeah, another interesting thing to do to learn more about this could be to look at previous discussions about this microproject in the mailing list archive, as I think it has already been discussed last year.