From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: GSoC 2011 : one more interested student. Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:31:01 -0700 Message-ID: <7vtyed7ioq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4D9912F8.60002@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: tipecaml@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 05 00:31:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6sIp-0007ao-9G for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:31:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754028Ab1DDWbO (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:31:14 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:43645 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752484Ab1DDWbN (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:31:13 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 782604B34; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:33:03 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=9KfF0RG9tQ0OyY9/e+k1NmK8+cA=; b=ULDLu/ qmdiU6uZZEP2J1lVbipGEq5g52Vi/GStNgi6LnnBnAL4JW5WJCrB4/ggflxbof4H iKWTGUObrXctjwtwvUeDHnSZeBMpa30V62YP04/MI2i5W+5ONzM8ANvM//VAUgVn 5KqmetshaaYjN2VsEjTz43m40P3BG/hTsLrvM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=WNchzg3cuntUWh8LYmG/vLBln30gYB8A xQEFssKuCLbquLdjDN3O82hncnB3U1kRb+rJVHcC3g1aq/eY2BFnjIg6+rXZHp5U sgC9tQZKbK8wYLSE1FpZ1yUmGs+Bqi+yxYYvwRjiDM8JGiWcaooZ08RZlYgUwC4H ZejVxL2tq/4= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474714B31; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:33:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 36C4D4B30; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:32:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4D9912F8.60002@gmail.com> (Cyril Roelandt's message of "Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:38:16 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 7F0E0166-5F0B-11E0-B8FA-E8AB60295C12-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Cyril Roelandt writes: > * 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. It seems that libgit2 project got GSoC slots out of the git project even though they didn't apply themselves ;-) But if you are interested in the git project proper, there also are ideas on the wiki page. > * 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 ? Performance won't be the primary issue; we would want to lose POSIX shell and Perl dependency for Windows folks and that is the primary gain from that part of the project.