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From: Inaw Tham <pickfire@riseup.net>
To: Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, sbeller@google.com
Subject: Re: Re: Re: GSoC Project | Convert interactive rebase to C
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 10:17:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170325021703.Tjq7i-hO7%pickfire@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703231827060.3767@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017, Ivan Tham wrote:
> > Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Ivan Tham <pickfire@riseup.net> wrote:
> > > > I am Ivan Tham. Currently studying in Computer Science in APIIT
> > > > Malaysia. I am interested particapate in Google Summer of Code 2017
> > > > under git organization. I would like to attempt "Add more builtin
> > > > patterns for userdiff" particularly for shell for my microproject.
> > >
> > > I'd love to see proper shell support!  Although there is already some
> > > support for shell (by looking at diffs on our test suite) ? So I am
> > > not sure what there is left to do? Can you clarify what you're trying
> > > there?
> > 
> > Are you sure about that? From what I had looked into userdiff.c, there
> > is no support for shell. There just a recent patch for [go patterns][0].
> > Or perhaps I should have rename it as "userdiff.c: patterns for "shell"
> > language"?
> 
> I also could not find any shell patterns in the userdiff code...

Thanks a lot for replying me, I thought no one was intereted. :D

> > > > I am interested to work on "Convert interactive rebase to C"
> > >
> > > +cc Johannes, who recently worked on rebase and the sequencer.
> 
> Glad you are interested! Please note that large parts of the interactive
> rebase are already in C now, but there is enough work left in that corner.

Glad to hear that, I would really like to see interactive rebase in C.

> > > > aiming to port most builtins stuff to C in which we can reduce the
> > > > size of git. Additionally, I would also like to convert scripts to
> > > > builtins as an additional milestone.
> 
> Careful. It is a ton of work to get the rebase -i conversion done, and
> then a ton of work to get it integrated. That will fill 3 months, very
> easily.

My main aim is to reduce the extra dependency of perl, but planning to start
with rebase, can I make that an optional task where I can help out after I
had completed my main task during gsoc?

> > > > What do you think of these projects? Would it collide with Valery
> > > > Tolstov's Shell to Builtins proposal?
> 
> I missed that proposal, and could only find submodule-related mails on the
> public-inbox server. Care to provide a pointer?
> 
> > > Curious why all people ask about colliding with Valerys proposal here?
> > > I do not think it would collide, as submodules and rebase are very
> > > different areas of the code base.
> 
> Indeed ;-)

Cheers,
Ivan Tham

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-25  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-20 16:41 GSoC Project | Convert interactive rebase to C Ivan Tham
2017-03-20 17:41 ` Stefan Beller
2017-03-21  6:05   ` Ivan Tham
2017-03-23 17:30     ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-23 18:19       ` Stefan Beller
2017-03-25  2:17       ` Inaw Tham [this message]
2017-03-27 15:11         ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-03-27 16:31           ` Pickfire
2017-03-28  6:27             ` Christian Couder

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