Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser

[Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>]

Hi Jakub,

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> By the way, it would be good to find an example with "evil merge",
> which means that the change to given line(s) is in the merge commit
> itself.  Correctly simplifying history in such case might be
> non-trivial.

It is a little time consuming to find such a change in the history. I
think we can come up some ones at the start of the project manually
and put them into the testcases. :)

> Another example that it would be good to have is "history split"
> example, which means the case where some lines were consolidated
> (e.g. after refactoring), and some of lines in "preimage" come
> from different lines of history.
>
> This would help with writing tests for this feature (compare tests
> for blame), although they are not in my opinion necessary for the
> proposal itself.
>
> I hope that all this cases would fall naturally from the
> implementation.
> [...]
>> > Push the code somewhere public as you go, even between feature
>> > completions.  Post RFCs once you have workable features so people can
>> > comment.  Generally try to be visible.
>> >
>> > Bonus points if you can think of something visible to do during the
>> > period where you look at code,
>>
>> Yeah, really is a good point. And I have tried to play around on
>> github.com and try to set up a http://github.com/byang/my_git for this
>> purpose. :)
>
> my_git is not very descriptive... well, unless you would do your work
> on GSoC2010/line-level-history-browser branch, or something like that.
>
> It might be good idea to have repo.or.cz as an additional repository,
> as a fork of git.git repo, and with SoC / GSoC labels.  See
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/forks?t=soc

Ah, a repo at  http://github.com/byang/gsoc-line-browser is created
and a mirror at http://repo.or.cz/w/gsoc-line-browser.git, I think
this is enough. :-)

Thanks!
Bo