Re: web-based client for Git, was Re: GSoC 2010

From: Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12, 2010, 12:24 UTC
Message-ID: <e72faaa81002120424y5d54f6e9y9013d416057d962a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100212121844.GK4159@machine.or.cz>

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>  However, I'm a bit unsure if you aren't loading too much on yourself,
> seeing how much effort it took the other projects to implement *just the
> read-only parts* properly. So I still wonder why it wouldn't be better
> to focus purely on the editing and commit creation, while relying on
> an existing web interface to provide the history browsing, diffs, etc.

Yeah, My GSoC project will consist of this. Remaining all functionalities will be coded after i finish GSoC.

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>  This could be done in several ways - simply taking a client and adding
> your code to provide the extra functionality there, OR creating a
> standalone project that would be cross-linked with a given web
> interface. The latter option is interesting since your extension could
> work easily with the web interfaces of choice (and e.g. modifying gitweb
> to provide the appropriate links is trivial, to a degree even possible
> purely from config file).

I am intended to link it with gitweb.

>  P.S.: I could volunteer to mentor such a project, if no more active
> Git hacker shows interest. Perhaps Jakub Narebski might be interested?

Wow. That's great, If u could get a confirmation that somebody is willing to mentor this, then i can start the project even before the start of GSoC itself.

-pavan