From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Matheus Tavares Bernardino <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Microproject on git-credential-cache
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:00:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190212000033.GB13301@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHd-oW4p6XUjF_j+XXwYWGt__L_5bTJGwxmgWhxJfpuAFac=dQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 09:45:21PM -0200, Matheus Tavares Bernardino wrote:
> I've been contributing to the Linux Kernel for the past semester and
> I'm now looking to take my first steps in the git community. I'm also
> interested in GSoC 2019.
Hi, and welcome!
> I started looking at https://git.github.io/SoC-2019-Microprojects/ and
> one that got my attention was "Move ~/.git-credential-cache to
> ~/.cache/git". But looking around at the code and the mailing list,
> this microproject seems to have been already solved at 60759ba
> ("credential-cache: use XDG_CACHE_HOME for socket", 2017-03-17),
> right?
Yes, I think so. We should remove it from the list (you're welcome to
submit a PR at https://github.com/git/git.github.io.
> For the microproject "Add configuration options for some commonly used
> command-line options", are there some options already known to be good
> for adding to configuration file?
Hmm. I don't offhand have any suggestions. That one has been floating
around since at least 2015. I wonder if it may also be time to retire it
(or give some more concrete examples).
> Finally, a non GSoC-related question. Just to confirm my understanding
> of Documentation/SubmittingPatches: I must send patches to the mailing
> list first and after some feedback from community, send to the
> maintainer with CC to the list, is that correct?
Yes. Often the maintainer will even pick them up without being cc'd (in
which case he'll usually reply to say so). The main goal is to avoid
overwhelming him with first-draft patches that are not yet ready to be
applied. :)
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-12 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-11 23:45 [GSoC] Microproject on git-credential-cache Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2019-02-12 0:00 ` Jeff King [this message]
2019-02-12 0:23 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2019-02-12 0:32 ` Jeff King
2019-02-12 0:08 ` Christian Couder
2019-02-12 0:27 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
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