introduction

Hi everyone,

I'm attending Hacker School and was interested in contributing to git this summer and possibly afterwards. At Hacker School they encourage us to contribute to open source software and projects were are interested in. I'm in love with git, so naturally I want to contribute to you guys. Why git? Because it's an awesome tool that has many well thought out features that other source control tools lack like offline mode. I'd like to see more people using git, and I'd like to see it chosen as the source control tool used for team projects. So I was thinking about contributing the following (which are the reasons I've heard why people don't use git):

1) Commands are cryptic: I was thinking I could provide a wrapper to
simplify the commands, for example to undo a local commit, I can
introduce a "git undo commit", that wraps "reset" and will undo the
last commit. Or maybe "git rollback" is a better name?

2) git undo command, that will undo the last command (if possible)?

Other ideas:

3) Just like we have git-svn, maybe a svn-git?

Any help or if you can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. I can also start out by fixing some bugs to get into it. I couldn't figure out how to see a list of bugs though.

How does one contribute to your documentation? Would it be submitting a patch just like with code?

Please let me know what you think!

Thanks, Leila

On 06/04/2012 10:36 PM, Leila wrote:

There's Legit [1], Easy Git [2] and probably more.

Not possible in general.

?

There's no bugtracker, just the ML.

How to submit patches: https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

You could check "old" GSoC Ideas: https://github.com/peff/git/wiki/SoC-2012-Ideas

Yes.

HTH.

[1] http://www.git-legit.org [2] http://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Michael Schubert <schu@schu.io> wrote:

Ok fair.

Undoing adds and commits? But I guess there isn't a long list here..

Thanks!

Thanks I've reached out to Peff and Thomas.

On 06/04/2012 10:36 PM, Leila wrote:

I would absolutely love "gvn" command that works more or less exactly like svn, but works against a git repository instead. That might allow me to persuade the last recalcitrant bugger to switch to a version control that actually allows people to work *with* the tool instead of *for* it.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:

Yea, that's exactly the same reason I had. I wanted my colleagues to switch to using git from svn. I love the name you gave it. That's totally the name that project should be.