From: Christian Couder Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:20:41 GMT Subject: Re: Git project and GSoC 2026 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 9:28 PM Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > Just a gentle nudge for the project ideas. The deadline to apply for GSoC is Feb 3 18:00 UTC. We need the ideas page ready a couple of days before it at least. Thanks for the nudge! > Feel free to chime in to suggest ideas that would be achievable by someone new-ish to the community. If you're doubtful whether an idea would be relevant for GSoC, feel free to share the same and we can discuss it. Here are ideas I came up with: 1) Continue the current work on removing global variables. 2) Finish, and then maybe improve, some work Eric Ju started a long time ago on `git cat-file`. 3) Improve git-backfill, or maybe a different command, so it can remove large local blobs when they are available on a promisor remote (for clients who want to get back disk space). 4) Implement some kind of fetch order when more than 1 promisor remote is configured (this order could be passed from servers to clients through the promisor-remote protocol to make sure the fetches happen in the optimal order). 5) Make the promisor-remote protocol useful when the server wants to advertise "better-connected" remotes (not just remotes the server uses) as Junio suggested some time ago (see Documentation/gitprotocol-v2.adoc). 6) Improve `git repo info` so it can show more information than now. 7) Improve `git repo structure` so it can show more stats than now. 8) Improve fast-export/fast-import and maybe git-repo-filter regarding commit and/or tag signatures. This might conflict with GitLab people (including me) possibly working on that soon though. I would be willing to mentor any of them, but I don't have much knowledge on `git repo`, so I think it makes more sense for me to avoid 6) and 7).