Re: GSoC 2009 Prospective student

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Feb 22, 2009, 22:22 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902221709460.5511@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20090222204334.GY4371@genesis.frugalware.org>

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Miklos Vajna wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:28:33AM +0530, Rohan Dhruva <rohandhruva@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That being said, I have knowledge of C/C++ what was taught to me in
> > school and college. I realize that my qualifications as such are not
> > very impressive, and hence I wish to start with a smaller project. I
> > read on the http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2009Ideas page that a
> > "jump-in" project might be the "Restartable Clones" proposal.
> 
> I would recommend you to read this thread:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/55254/focus=55298
> 
> Especially Shawn's message, which can be a base for your proposal, if
> you want to work in this.

I don't particularly agree with Shawn's proposal. Reliance on a stable sorting on the server side is too fragile, restrictive and cumbersome.

Restartable clone is _hard_. Even I who has quite a bit of knowledge in the affected area didn't find a satisfactory solution yet.

I think restartable clone is a really bad suggestion for SOC students. After all we want successful SOC projects, not ones that even core git developers did not yet find a good solution for.

IMHO of course.

Nicolas