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[Outreachy] Introduction

Subject: [Outreachy] Introduction

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3 messages between Oct 16, 2020 and Oct 16, 2020.

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Zodwa Phakathi· Oct 16, 2020, 08:28 UTC · lore

Good day,

I hope this email finds you well. My name is Zodwa Phakathi from South Africa. I am one of the Outreach applicants. I would like to participate in the following project by the title of Rename detection and the "range-diff" command in Git. I would like some advice on which microproject I can participate in. I am interested in the Modernize a test script microproject, Kindly advise if it is still available to work on it and how to set up the project.

kind regards, Zodwa.

Christian Couder· Oct 16, 2020, 08:46 UTC · re: Zodwa Phakathi · lore

Re: [Outreachy] Introduction

Hi Zodwa,

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:28 AM Zodwa Phakathi <phakathizc@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Good day,
>
> I hope this email finds you well. My name is Zodwa Phakathi from South Africa.
> I am one of the Outreach applicants.

Thanks for your interest in Git and welcome to the Git mailing list and the Git project!

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> I would like to participate in
> the following project by the title of Rename detection and the
> "range-diff" command in Git. I would like some advice on which
> microproject I can participate in. I am interested in the Modernize a
> test script microproject, Kindly advise if it is still available to
> work on it and how to set up the project.

The "Modernize a test script microproject" is still available but some people have already started modernizing the t7001, t7101, t7102 and t7201 test script, so you will need to find a different test script that needs to be modernized.

If you find such a test script, please let us know before starting to work on it, so that we can validate that it's worth modernizing and so that we can avoid someone else possibly working on the same script.

Best, Christian.

Christian Couder· Oct 16, 2020, 10:02 UTC · lore

Re: [Outreachy] Introduction

Hi Zodwa,

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:58 AM Zodwa Phakathi <phakathizc@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi Christian,
>
> Thank you for your email. Kindly share with me a link where the test scripts are situated.

First please try to reply using the same posting style (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style) as everyone on this mailing list, which is replying inline instead of "top posting".

The tests are in the "t" directory of Git's source code. You can see them for example here:

https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/t

You can also clone the whole repository as you will anyway need to commit your changes in a repo before you can send them as email patches to the mailing list.

Please see the following document for more explanations about contributing:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt

Best, Christian.