From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:10:53 GMT Subject: Re: Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi Duy, On 2015-02-25 11:02, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Matthieu Moy > wrote: >> To get an idea, I counted the lines of code written by the student I >> mentored last year: >> >> $ git log --author tanayabh@gmail.com -p | diffstat -s >> 43 files changed, 1225 insertions(+), 367 deletions(-) >> >> I would consider this GSoC as "average" (i.e. not exceptionnally good, >> but certainly not a bad one either), so you may hope for more, but you >> should not _expect_ much more IMHO. >> >> In comparison: >> >> $ wc -l git-add--interactive.perl >> 1654 git-add--interactive.perl >> $ wc -l git-stash.sh >> 617 git-stash.sh >> >> I'd expect a rewrite in C to at least double the number of lines of >> code, so rewriting git-stash would mean writting at least as many lines >> of code as the GSoC above. git-add--interactive.perl would be rather far >> above. >> >> But my point was not to convert _only_ git-pull.sh, but to have a GSoC >> starting with this one and plan more. Then, depending on how it goes, >> you can adjust the target. > > Some data point as I have a half-baked builtin/pull.c in my > (forgotten) private branch for 3 years. pull.c has 389 lines (with 24 > shell lines left in "#if 0"). git-pull.sh has 340 lines. Let's add 100 > C lines to pull.c when it's complete, that's 50% more lines. But in > the git-pull case the student could get a good head start by reusing > my code, maybe. Thanks for the pointer, I will keep that in mind! Ciao, Dscho -- -- *** Please reply-to-all at all times *** *** (do not pretend to know who is subscribed and who is not) *** *** Please avoid top-posting. *** The msysGit Wiki is here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki - Github accounts are free. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To post to this group, send email to msysgit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, and view previous threads, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for Windows" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.