From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:05:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Want to start contributing to git through this task: "Use dir-iterator to avoid explicit recursiv
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On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:51 AM, vaibhav kurhe <vaibhav.kurhe@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://git.github.io/SoC-2018-Microprojects/.
> Out of the tasks listed down in above URL, I found this one interesting:-
> "Use dir-iterator to avoid explicit recursive directory traversal"
> I cloned the git repo and browsed through it. I found that in git
> clone (buildtin/clone.c), raw directory API readdir() is used
> recursively.
> So there is a place to change it to use the already available
> "dir_iterator" structure.
> I just want to know, if anybody is working on this task already.
> If not, then I can proceed to work.

There has been no recent discussion on the mailing list regarding
this, so it is unlikely that anyone else is working on it.