Re: Git in Outreachy?
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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
- Date
- Sep 4, 2020, 14:14 UTC
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- <20200903060041.GH4035286@google.com>
On 03/09/2020 07:00, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Hi, > > Christian Couder wrote: > >> I would appreciate help to find project ideas though. Are there still >> scripts that are worth converting to C (excluding git-bisect.sh and >> git-submodule.sh that are still worked on)? Are there worthy >> refactorings or improvements that we could propose as projects? > I think setting up something like snowpatch[*] to run CI on patches > that have hit the mailing list but not yet hit "seen" might be a good > project for an interested applicant (and I'd be interested in > co-mentoring if we find a taker). > > Some other topics that could be interesting: > - better support for handling people's name changing > - making signing features such as signed push easier to use (for > example by allowing signing with SSH keys to simplify PKI) and more > useful (for example by standardizing a way to publish signed push > logs in Git) > - protocol: sharing notes and branch descriptions > - formats: on-disk reverse idx > - obliterate > - cache server to take advantage of multiple promisors+packfile URIs > > Jonathan > > [*] https://github.com/ruscur/snowpatch
A suggestion with high value for the Windows community - mechanism to map file names between the index and the local FS, should a repos file/path name already be taken, or invalid. [1]
Philip
[1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2803#issuecomment-687161483