Re: [GSoC] Microproject on git-credential-cache

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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>

Date

Feb 12, 2019, 00:08 UTC

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Hi,

>
> Hi, everyone
>
> I've been contributing to the Linux Kernel for the past semester and
> I'm now looking to take my first steps in the git community. I'm also
> interested in GSoC 2019.

Thanks for your interest in Git!

> I started looking at https://git.github.io/SoC-2019-Microprojects/ and
> one that got my attention was "Move ~/.git-credential-cache to
> ~/.cache/git". But looking around at the code and the mailing list,
> this microproject seems to have been already solved at 60759ba
> ("credential-cache: use XDG_CACHE_HOME for socket", 2017-03-17),
> right?

Yeah, I think you are right. Sorry for not having the time to check by myself.

> For the microproject "Add configuration options for some commonly used
> command-line options", are there some options already known to be good
> for adding to configuration file?

> Finally, a non GSoC-related question. Just to confirm my understanding
> of Documentation/SubmittingPatches: I must send patches to the mailing
> list first and after some feedback from community, send to the
> maintainer with CC to the list, is that correct?

Yes, that's correct.