Re: GSoC 2019: Git's application submitted

["Оля Тележная" <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com>]

> It would be nice to have a few more project ideas.

I am not sure I have additional ideas for 3-month project for the intern, but

> https://git.github.io/SoC-2019-Ideas/ currently lists only 2 possible
> projects:
>
> - Unify ref-filter formats with other --pretty formats (which is new)

I am ready to act as a mentor in this task, I know that part of
project good enough.
I have additional related task: We have a function called
oid_object_info, it allows to download meta-info of the file. It was
used in cat-file, and inspired by that example, I improved ref-filter,
so now ref-filter works faster with it. Moreover, I have found that
oid_object_info allows to get the contents of the file. It was useful
in ref-filter, and actually it could be also useful in cat-file, but
we still download the file differently in cat-file, and it looks
awkward. I need to make just one last move to finish my patch: it will
close the task about migrating cat-file formatting logic to
ref-filter. But cat-file still will not use general way to download
the file. So, the task is to get rid of additional file-reading logic.
I guess this task is much smaller than original one, but at least the
student will have chance to finish it in 3 months.
My patch is here: https://github.com/git/git/pull/568
But I hope you will also see it this week in the mailing list.
Proposed task is in TODO in the end of ref-filter file.

By the way, we had a letter from Google, it is said that our tasks are
sparsed. I am not sure I understand it correctly. Should I help the
project somehow to solve our issues?