Re: [GSoC15] Interested in contributing to git

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mar 3, 2015, 16:20 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqbnkagiie.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CACRoPnSrjysUhC77LXVjy5VJxFFPoiRuhD7pMab_8T2Pua_T+A@mail.gmail.com>

Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi all,
>
> git is one of the projects that I wish to contribute to for Google
> Summer of Code 2015 as it's an integral part of my workflow. I'm from
> Singapore, and have been accepted to the National University of
> Singapore for Computer Engineering, and will only matriculate on 3 Aug
> 2015.

Be carefull: a GSoC is a full-time job. The GSoC itself ends on August 21st, so there would be a substantial (too big?) overlap between the GSoC and your studies.

> I understand that I have to complete a microproject. I would like
> complete "Move ~/.git-credentials and ~/.git-credential-cache to
> ~/.config/git". I'm thinking that the XDG locations should take
> precedence over the non-XDG locations?

The logic is different for reading and for writting, see how Git deals with it for ~/.gitconfig for example. Essentially, we read both, and we write to the one which exists if there's only one.

I'm the one who proposed this microproject, and some feedback on the mailing-list was that it was not so "micro" and probably too big already.

Both for the microproject and the GSoC itself, don't be too ambitious on the feature you target, and don't underestimate the effort needed to get from "the code looks OK to me" to "the code has been reviewed on list and merged upstream".

Cheers,

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/