Re: Introduction and interest in Git - Deveshi Dwivedi

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 27, 2025, 10:10 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD2pTOQVU58dMsix6GjWCygskXtCM_6EN=A4cMoscgdV+w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAG7UgERJa8ktfetWty6A_0VL=s=yzfi-y0mLEta-NvQcd-0aDA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Deveshi,

On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM Deveshi Dwivedi <deveshigurgaon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi all,
> I'm Deveshi Dwivedi, a fourth year Computer Science undergraduate from India.
>
> I'm excited to be here and wanted to introduce myself. I've been
> interested in open source for a few years now and have contributed to
> a few organizations in the past. I'm currently exploring Git and would
> really like to start contributing to it, particularly as I'm
> interested in GSoC 2026.
>
> I have been reading through the documentation and the "Hacking Git"
> article to get familiar with the codebase. I have set up the
> repository locally and run the test suite successfully. I am hoping to
> start with some small contributions and learn along the way.

Thanks for your interest in Git and welcome to the community!

I would suggested starting with a few tutorials like:

https://git-scm.com/docs/MyFirstContribution

You might also be interested in the following page if you haven't read it already:

https://git.github.io/General-Microproject-Information/

Best, Christian.