Re: [GSoC] Hello Git

[ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>]

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> 于2021年5月18日周二 下午10:32写道：
>
> Hi ZheNing,
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 8:40 AM ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello，Git!
> >
> > ### Self introduction
> >
> > I'm ZheNing Hu, I am very lucky to participate in the GSoC
> > git project this year. Many people in the git community already
> > have given me a lot of help in the past few months.
> > Junio, Christian, Peff, Eric, Denton..., it's great to get along with
> > you guys! Your review and guidance have greatly benefited
> > my growth.
>
> We are very happy with your application to the GSoC with us, and with
> your work so far!
>

Thanks!

> > But for now,
> > It seems that the parsing of full-named atoms in `pretty.c` is not very elegant.
> > E.g.
> >
> >    if (skip_prefix(placeholder, "(describe", &arg)) {
> >    ...
> >    }
> >
> >        if (skip_prefix(placeholder, "(trailers", &arg)) {
> >    ...
> >    }
> >
> > We should have an atom table like `valid_atom` in `ref-filter.c`,
> > but this is missing in `pretty.c`. So how do we complete the
> > unification of the two types of atoms now?
>
> Yeah, unifying pretty.c and ref-filter.c was the purpose of Hariom's
> GSoC last year, and there is still work to do on this, but you might
> want to focus on the format code used by git cat-file first, as that's
> what your project is about.
>

Oh, what you said makes sense. The refactoring of `cat-file --batch`
using `ref-filter` logic seems to have little to do with the task of letting
`ref-filter` learn short-name atoms at the time. I will shift the focus of
my work

> > 2. "50cfe1f([GSOC] ref-filter: introduce enum atom_type)" has
> > been merged into the `next` branch, should we focus on the
> > performance optimization of `ref-filter.c`? Finally, we can build a
> > `format_cat_file_item()` similar to `format_ref_array_item()`,
> > which should not be difficult. And we have to make sure that the
> > performance of `cat-file --batch` is not lower than before.
>
> I wonder if format_ref_array_item() could not just be used by
> batch_object_write() like Olga did it in:
>
> https://github.com/git/git/pull/568/commits/f911b342ae6503dc9f6f8e3c7df316aa45d97bdf
>

Thanks for the tip! Olga uses `format_cat_file_item()` in
batch_object_write() , which may be the correct approach.
Before that, we have to make ref-filter support "%(contents:raw)"
(similar to Olga's "%(raw)") and "%(rest)".

> > ### The connection between Git and the file system
> >
> > I am currently studying operating system course, git as a
> > file system on top of the file system.
> > There are many differences and similarities with ordinary
> > file systems. I am very curious about this knowledge, do
> > not know if there are any relevant reading materials?
>
> You might be interested in https://ostreedev.github.io/ostree/
>
> Best,
> Christian.

Thanks!
--
ZheNing Hu