Re: Git in Outreachy?

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 18, 2020, 08:42 UTC
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:35 PM Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 2:47 AM Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> > Proposed on Outreachy's website:
> >
> > https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-december-2020-internship-round/communities/git/accelerate-rename-detection-and-the-range-diff-com/cfp/
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> As a heads up, I'm going to be sending many patches modifying quite a
> wide range of diffcore-rename.c in the coming months for accelerating
> rename detection.  Maybe I'll get them all upstreamed before outreachy
> starts, but that's not so clear.

It starts at the beginning of December, so I think there is still time for you to get them upstreamed.

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> As I mentioned in the gitgitgadget
> issue, the ideas outlined there and the methods I implemented are
> different and complementary, but there is a pretty large risk of
> conflicts we need to resolve if I don't finish landing all my patches
> first.

It could be a learning experience anyway for the intern, and in my experience it has never been a big problem before, so I am not very worried about this.

Thanks for the heads up!

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> >
> > > - Add support for drop!/reword! commits to `git rebase -i`
> > > (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/259,
> > > https://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1710151754070.40514@virtualbox/)
> > > - Invent a way to retain reflogs for a while after the ref was deleted
> > > (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/236): I guess this might
> > > be implemented as part of the new `git maintenance` builtin.
> >
> > I will also likely submit a proposal for one of the above projects.