# How to start contributing

3 messages from 2018-10-18 to 2018-10-24. Participants: Πλάτων Κιορπελίδης, Christian Couder, Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/49605

## Πλάτων Κιορπελίδης, 2018-10-18 12:49

Subject: How to start contributing
Message-ID: <CAJKt3eP+BZkfK_yn3KYWMgmJB8_18UFr5eizmdGOY_4vM5=AYA@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAJKt3eP%2BBZkfK_yn3KYWMgmJB8_18UFr5eizmdGOY_4vM5%3DAYA%40mail.gmail.com

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Hello,

I’m a computer science student and I’m interested in contributing to git.
I’ve read the GSoC git page with the ideas and micro-projects as I’m
interested in participating next summer.
I’ve also read the Documentation at the GitHub mirror.
I’ve never worked on such large project and I don’t know where to start from.
I’ve picked this microproject from the GSoC page:

Make “git tag –contains <id>” less chatty if <id> is invalid
“git tag – contains <id>” prints the whole help text if <id> is
invalid. It should only show the error message instead.
Thread: https://public-inbox.org/git/20160118215433.GB24136@sigill.intra.peff.net/

This bug is solved using the 3rd option, but I suspect that it’s still
here because the 2nd option is preferred.

How should I tackle this?

Thanks.

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## Christian Couder, 2018-10-20 06:47

Subject: Re: How to start contributing
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3CDwu7OVgVmEgP2Se_bxYszcze68_bXT7=wgZaxncpzg@mail.gmail.com>
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In-Reply-To: <CAJKt3eP+BZkfK_yn3KYWMgmJB8_18UFr5eizmdGOY_4vM5=AYA@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi,

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:51 PM Πλάτων Κιορπελίδης
<trickygitninja@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I’m a computer science student and I’m interested in contributing to git.
> I’ve read the GSoC git page with the ideas and micro-projects as I’m
> interested in participating next summer.
> I’ve also read the Documentation at the GitHub mirror.
> I’ve never worked on such large project and I don’t know where to start from.
> I’ve picked this microproject from the GSoC page:
>
> Make “git tag –contains <id>” less chatty if <id> is invalid
> “git tag – contains <id>” prints the whole help text if <id> is
> invalid. It should only show the error message instead.
> Thread: https://public-inbox.org/git/20160118215433.GB24136@sigill.intra.peff.net/
>
> This bug is solved using the 3rd option, but I suspect that it’s still
> here because the 2nd option is preferred.

I think it should probably have been removed from the micro-project
list. I am CC'ing Peff as he wrote the email listing the different
options to solve the original issue and may think otherwise.

> How should I tackle this?

It's a good first step to ask first on the list as you did if it is a
good micro-project or not. Unfortunately in this case I think you
might want to try to find another micro-project.

Thanks,
Christian.

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## Jeff King, 2018-10-24 08:19

Subject: Re: How to start contributing
Message-ID: <20181024081922.GA31885@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20181024081922.GA31885%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD3CDwu7OVgVmEgP2Se_bxYszcze68_bXT7=wgZaxncpzg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 08:47:35AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

> > Make “git tag –contains <id>” less chatty if <id> is invalid
> > “git tag – contains <id>” prints the whole help text if <id> is
> > invalid. It should only show the error message instead.
> > Thread: https://public-inbox.org/git/20160118215433.GB24136@sigill.intra.peff.net/
> >
> > This bug is solved using the 3rd option, but I suspect that it’s still
> > here because the 2nd option is preferred.
> 
> I think it should probably have been removed from the micro-project
> list. I am CC'ing Peff as he wrote the email listing the different
> options to solve the original issue and may think otherwise.

Sorry for the reply.

Yeah, I I think the solution in 3bb0923f06 (parse-options: do not show
usage upon invalid option value, 2018-03-22) is fine. Even though it may
not have been what _I_ would have done personally, I don't think it is
worth anybody spending more brain cycles on it.

-Peff

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