Re: Pain points in Git's patch flow

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 14, 2021, 21:42 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzgy0wnk2.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7dl5z425.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> So, I dunno.  We seem to suffer from the same lack of good starter
> tasks before each GSoC begins.

And long after sending the response, I realize that this has very little to do with "Git's patch flow" issue that you wanted to discuss. Helping newbies wet their toes may be a topic worth discussing, but that is not the focus of this thread.

Let me send a response to describe my pain points separately. Sorry for the noise.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.