Re: [Outreachy] Introduction

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

Hi Sangeeta

On 16/10/2020 06:27, Sangeeta NB wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 8:15 PM Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
>> index 8f6227c993..c4182be633 100644
>> --- a/submodule.c
>> +++ b/submodule.c
>> @@ -1679,6 +1679,8 @@ unsigned is_submodule_modified(const char *path,
>> int ignore_untracked)
>>           strvec_pushl(&cp.args, "status", "--porcelain=2", NULL);
>>           if (ignore_untracked)
>>                   strvec_push(&cp.args, "-uno");
>> +       else
>> +               strvec_push (&cp.args, "--ignore-submodules=none");
>>
>>           prepare_submodule_repo_env(&cp.env_array);
>>           cp.git_cmd = 1;
>>
>> fixes it, I'm unsure at the moment if we should be adding the extra flag
>> here or setting the appropriate option in status when -uno and
>> --ignore-submodules=<option> are both omitted though
> 
> Ya, that does work and the PR passed all the tests after this correction.
> I have submitted the patch[1] for it and would be glad to have reviews
> on it from the git community.
> 
> [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/pull.751.git.1602781723670.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/T/#u

I'll try and have a proper read through at the beginning of next week. 
Hopefully others who use submodules more regularly will be have time to 
comment as well

>>
>> Have you setup a config.mak file? Mine looks like
>>
>> DEVELOPER = 1
>> SANITIZE = address,leak
>> CFLAGS += -ggdb3
>> CFLAGS += -fvar-tracking-assignments
>> CFLAGS += -fno-omit-frame-pointer
>>
>> Which will build git with warnings enabled, debugging information and
>> enables the address sanitizer. Then you can run the git you have built
>> under gdb with
>>
>>          GIT_DEBUGGER=1 bin-wrappers/git
>>
>> If you want to debug a particular test then I find adding `test_pause`
>> to the test and then running
>>
>>          GIT_DEBUGGER=1 git
>>
>> in the shell that the test opens (it sets up the path appropriately).
>> You may want to add LSAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0 to the commands above or
>> set up a suppressions file
>>
>> I also use printf quite a bit but it does tend to break other tests
>> which can be awkward.
>>
> 
> No, not yet. I would set it up. Thanks again!
> 
> As my next step, I was looking for some #good-first-issue to work on
> where I found an issue[2]. Has someone already worked on it? If not, I
> would love to work on this.
> Or if you have anything else in mind that I could work on please do
> suggest to me.

I'm not sure if someone else has worked on that - there has been some 
work to convert more of bisect to C recently [1]. It should be easy 
enough to test if bisect works from a subdirectory or not. I don't have 
anything else in mind - my advice would be to pick things that interest you

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20201015133838.85524-1-mirucam@gmail.com

Best Wishes

Phillip

> [2] https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/486[3]
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Sangeeta
>