Re: GSoC 2019: Git's application submitted

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 11, 2019, 23:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3s3-mR528FqV3yuMEZBqT0uP+Mp5hGDcN_a1LfAsR0bg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190211221827.GG6085@hank.intra.tgummerer.com>

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:18 PM Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 02/11, Christian Couder wrote:

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> > Historically though we have always been very optimistic in what we
> > thought a student could accomplish in a GSoC. And we are very likely
> > to find more ideas for improvements during the GSoC, in case
> > everything is "finished" before the end. I actually think that it has
> > never happened that a student both "finished" the project before the
> > end, and that no idea for improvement on top of the work was found.
>
> Fair enough.  I think there's still a number of things that could do
> with some refactoring in 'builtin/stash.c', e.g. use more of the
> libgit.a API, instead of using the run_command API, or potentially
> other improvements that could be made.
>
> Another thing that may be useful to do is to write down some actual
> technical documentation on the format of what a stash commit looks
> like.

Yeah, using more of the libgit.a API, instead of the run_command API, and writing technical documentation on the stash commit format look like good ideas to me. I think I will add those items to the project description if you don't mind.

> > So after all if you are willing to co-mentor such a project, I would
> > be ok to co-mentor it with you, and we should add it to the list.
>
> Ok, I'll submit a PR to add it to the list.

Great! I merged your PR.

I also resurrected the "Convert scripts to builtins" idea as I think there might still be shell scripts that could be converted, like perhaps git-merge-octopus.sh, git-merge-one-file.sh and git-merge-resolve.sh.

So I think we should be good regarding Google requirements.

Thanks, Christian.