Re: Ensimag students projects, version 2013

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Apr 15, 2013, 09:24 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqvc7oqh8a.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <87r4iccgdw.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>

Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:

> My $0.02:

(BTW, feel free to edit the wiki. I've added a few bits from your message there already).

> * Allow "git add -p" to use "git diff --color-words" to show hunks

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>   If neither one is possible my feeling is that it's one of the
>   hardest tasks on the list. (Not to discourcage anyone from trying,
>   but still.)

Yes, this was already inferable from the "See also the GSoC proposal" statement and our discussions on GSoCs on this list ;-). It's not funny if all projects are easy, but it's not a coincidence if this idea has been there for a while without being implemented.

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> * git pull --set-upstream
>
>   This is vaguely related to another itch that nobody has bothered to
>   fix: 'git fetch origin foo' should really update origin/foo.  This has
>   been discussed on the list a few times already:
>
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192252
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165720/focus=165758
>
>   which by the way would be a *great* thing to fix, hint hint ;-)  and
>   since Peff already posted a POC patch in the first thread, it's
>   probably not that hard.  (Peff?)

My understanding is that this would be technically easy to fix, but a migration plan is needed, which isn't easy for a one-shot, one-month contribution.

I've added it to the wiki.

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> * Allow git send-email --cc 'foo@example.com, bar@example.com' instead
>   of git send-email --cc foo@example.com --cc bar@example.com
>
>   That would be really nice.  Bonus points if it handles continuation
>   lines etc. correctly, so that it's even easier to paste.

Added to the wiki too.

Thanks,

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