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From: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
To: peff@peff.net
Cc: jonathantanmy@google.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git in Outreachy December 2019?
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:04:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190920170448.226942-1-jonathantanmy@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190913205148.GA8799@sigill.intra.peff.net>

> Prospective mentors need to sign up on that site, and should propose a
> project they'd be willing to mentor.

[snip]

> I'm happy to discuss possible projects if anybody has an idea but isn't
> sure how to develop it into a proposal.

I'm new to Outreachy and programs like this, so does anyone have an
opinion on my draft proposal below? It does not have any immediate
user-facing benefit, but it does have a definite end point.

Also let me know if an Outreachy proposal should have more detail, etc.

    Refactor "git index-pack" logic into library code

    Currently, whenever any Git code needs a pack to be indexed, it
    needs to spawn a new "git index-pack" process, passing command-line
    arguments and communicating with it using file descriptors (standard
    input and output), much like an end-user would if invoking "git
    index-pack" directly. Refactor the pack indexing logic into library
    code callable from other Git code, make "git index-pack" a thin
    wrapper around that library code, and (to demonstrate that the
    refactoring works) change fetch-pack.c to use the library code
    instead of spawning the "git index-pack" process.

    This allows the pack indexing code to communicate with its callers
    with the full power of C (structs, callbacks, etc.) instead of being
    restricted to command-line arguments and file descriptors. It also
    simplifies debugging in that there will no longer be 2
    inter-communicating processes to deal with, only 1.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-20 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-27  5:17 Git in Outreachy December 2019? Jeff King
2019-08-31  7:58 ` Christian Couder
2019-08-31 19:44   ` Olga Telezhnaya
2019-09-04 19:41 ` Jeff King
2019-09-05  7:24   ` Christian Couder
2019-09-05 19:39   ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-06 11:55     ` Carlo Arenas
2019-09-07  6:39       ` Jeff King
2019-09-07 10:13         ` Carlo Arenas
2019-09-07  6:36     ` Jeff King
2019-09-08 14:56   ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-09 17:00     ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:07   ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26  9:47     ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 19:32       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 21:54         ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 11:42     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-13 20:03 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-13 20:51   ` Jeff King
2019-09-16 18:42     ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-16 21:33       ` Eric Wong
2019-09-16 21:44       ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-16 23:13         ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-09-17  0:59           ` Jeff King
2019-09-17 11:23       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-17 12:02         ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-23 12:47           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-23 16:58             ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 11:04               ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 13:28                 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 19:39                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 21:44                     ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-27 22:18                       ` Jeff King
2019-10-09 17:25                         ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-10-11  6:34                           ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:19             ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 14:30               ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-17 15:10         ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 12:50           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-23 19:30           ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:07         ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 14:25           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-24 15:33             ` Jeff King
2019-09-28  3:56               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-24  0:55         ` Eric Wong
2019-09-26 12:45           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-30  8:55             ` Eric Wong
2019-09-28  4:01           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-20 17:04     ` Jonathan Tan [this message]
2019-09-21  1:47       ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-23 14:23         ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 19:40         ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 22:29           ` Philip Oakley
2019-10-22 21:16         ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-23 11:49       ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 17:58         ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 19:27           ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 20:48             ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 19:15       ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 20:38         ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 21:28           ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 17:07             ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-26  7:09               ` Jeff King

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