Re: [RFC/GSoC] Proposal: Make git-pull and git-am builtins

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>
>> About the timeline: I'd avoid too much parallelism. Usually, it's best
>> to try to send a first patch to the mailing list as soon as possible,
>> hence focus on one point first (I'd do that with pull, since that's the
>> one which is already started). Then, you can parallelize coding on git
>> am and the discussion on the pull patches. Whatever you plan, review and
>> polishing takes more than that ;-). The risk is to end up with an almost
>> good but not good enough to be mergeable code. That said, your timeline
>> does plan patches and review early, so I'm not too worried.
>>
>
> Well, I was thinking that after the full rewrite (2nd stage, halfway
> through the project), any optimizations made to the code will be done
> iteratively (and in separate small patches)

>> A general advice: if time allows, try to contribute to discussions and
>> review other than your own patches. It's nice to feel integrated in the
>> community and not "the GSoC student working alone at home" ;-).
>
> Yeah I apologize for not participating in the list so actively because
> writing the git-pull prototype and the proposal took a fair chunk of
> my time.