Re: Git in Outreachy?

From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2020, 10:14 UTC
Message-ID: <ed35b0ac-a2c6-c25d-db39-284e7daf29e8@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD1n_PYzygFCgNDt3T=EQhbcuaTYFCfNN5n45OHRh45KOg@mail.gmail.com>

On 17/09/2020 10:43, Christian Couder wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:01 AM Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 10:50 AM Johannes Schindelin
>> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> As to projects, I would like to believe that
>>> https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues has grown into a useful
>>> resource.
>>
>> Thanks for the useful resource!
>>
>> I would be interested in mentoring, or better co-mentoring, the
>> following projects:
>>
>> - Accelerate rename detection and range-diff
>> (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/519): ideally I would
>> co-mentor with someone a bit familiar with the suggested algorithms.
> 
> Proposed on Outreachy's website:
> 
> https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-december-2020-internship-round/communities/git/accelerate-rename-detection-and-the-range-diff-com/cfp/
> 
>> - Add support for drop!/reword! commits to `git rebase -i`
>> (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/259,
>> https://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1710151754070.40514@virtualbox/)

I'd be happy to support someone working on this though not necessarily as a formal co-mentor - what the time (and other) commitments does being a co-mentor involve?

Best Wishes

Phillip

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>> - Invent a way to retain reflogs for a while after the ref was deleted
>> (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/236): I guess this might
>> be implemented as part of the new `git maintenance` builtin.
> 
> I will also likely submit a proposal for one of the above projects.
>