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From: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: GSoC 2011 : one more interested student.
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:38:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9912F8.60002@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi.

I am currently studying Computer Science and Engineering. I have been 
using Open Source software for quite a while now, but I have  not 
contributed a lot of code to Open Source projects - except for a few 
patches to Gnome.

Being a git user, I would be interested in working on this project. I 
believe that taking part in the GSoC would be a good opportunity for me 
to discover the guts of a version control system.

* Complete some libgit2 features
Implementing a few key features seems like a great way to understand the 
way a VCS works. I would be interesting in working on the diff command 
and on the network related commands (git-push, git-fetch).

* Build a minimal Git client based on libgit2
It seems to be a quite popular task :) Hacking on this small git client 
would be a nice experience and would help me understanding how libgit2 
works.

* Build in more external commands
I am wondering why these commands should be rewritten. You know what 
they say : "if it is not broken, do not fix it" :-p Do these commands 
currently have performance issues ?


I will be working in a research lab until the end of June, but I will 
have more free time in July/August, that I could use to hack on git, 
which means I may have less time than most US students, who can enjoy a 
slightly longer summer break. Do you think it would be possible to work 
one of these projects anyway ?

Best regards,
Cyril.

             reply	other threads:[~2011-04-04  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-04  0:38 Cyril Roelandt [this message]
2011-04-04 12:05 ` GSoC 2011 : one more interested student Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-04-04 15:57 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-04-04 18:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-04 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-07  0:53   ` Jeff King

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