[GSoC Project Help] Unifying git branch -l, git tag -l and git for-each-ref

Hi all,

I am a Computer Science sophomore at IIT Kanpur. I am interested in contributing to git in GSoC 2015. I have been using git for the past one year and am pretty comfortable with its commands which is what made me think about contributing to git. I have attempted the microproject “adding ‘-’ as a shorthand to @{-1} in the reset command” [1] [2] from which I learnt about how code is reviewed in the community and how a seemingly small change can end up being much more difficult. But the thing I liked the most is the warm and welcoming attitude of everyone in the community towards a newcomer like me. I wish to take up the project idea “Unifying git branch -l, git tag -l and git for-each-ref”. I am in the process of reading and understanding the codes of these three commands and figuring out similarities and differences in them. I have gone through some of the discussions regarding this on the archive and have also read Junio’s reply to Amate Yolande [3], but I haven’t been able to find patches which attempt to unify the selection process as mentioned in the description of the idea. It would be great if someone could point me towards these patches which would help me when I start designing the details of the unified implementation. Thanks a lot for your time.

Regards, R Sundararajan.

[1] : http://marc.info/?l=git&m=142666740415816&w=2 [2] : http://marc.info/?l=git&m=142666773315899&w=2 [3] : http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264966