From: Pavan Kumar Sunkara Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:24:29 GMT Subject: Re: web-based client for Git, was Re: GSoC 2010 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100212121844.GK4159@machine.or.cz> >  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. >  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