From: Paul-Sebastian Ungureanu <ungureanupaulsebastian@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 19:33:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC] A blog about 'git stash' project
Message-ID: <e0029f5e-87eb-7531-c32d-9a58469faaa5@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1729567e-3b95-ab37-d845-1980795542b0@gmail.com>

Hi

On 17.05.2018 13:29, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2018 02:39 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> I have great empathy for the desire to see these bugs fixed. The
>> conversion must come first, though, and in the interest of making it
>> easier on me and other reviewers, I must insist on keeping the conversion
>> free of any changes, much in the way as we try to avoid evil merges (i.e.
>> merge commits that introduce changes that were not present in any of their
>> parents).
>>
> 
> Of course, the conversion should be separate from the bug fixes :-)
> 
> When I mentioned "while porting it to C", I actually meant the "thought
> process of creating a foundation for `git-stash` in C". I thought
> hinting at some of the existing and unsolved `git-stash` bugs would
> allow the person who would be doing the port of `git-stash` to C to
> consider how to avoid this while implementing the basic foundation. I
> should have been more explicit about this in my previous mails.
> 

Thank you! I will keep in mind to fix those bugs. I actually wrote a 
short paragraph about one of them (the one regarding -p option) on the 
blog (the first post).

Best,
Paul