From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3BD31FAE2 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2018 20:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752787AbeCQUvI (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:51:08 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f47.google.com ([209.85.214.47]:54551 "EHLO mail-it0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752065AbeCQUvH (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:51:07 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-f47.google.com with SMTP id w3-v6so5972781itc.4 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:51:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=c3HWBzJKK1p8ebT/IJQh7KB27bolWr8dIl6vdVX7NLc=; b=NsjiHMkAMbLLEX4MGcDr2hqeRX53cJbmHVWeJJ9/wVL0u8Oj4S9uaL3NgXkRkXwSpS edoLGbg7WL3Z/LS0MiLymh8JzpPiPmoMoiypiO9E8Ha+5GO/8sK/E0+C3wuEa2j/9uhe gqtennmjq+Itg0bjk4Jnu7dcibLNMonLZeIfGQh5DHN6FbGK8Z2jnnS9cPTyYPbMtGm9 k14aqSovZZuDh/UdvCjJlyDiBiu776ol+nGhoEpA3dDLtkFaY/A3ASiZ75ptMG0s3RJN jLvfck3KjaWI3dB9DFQ4zblvFQJwPYqDEiePOavdg8RnrfdyJ/m3h3qE5vD5SD9pExlF hGdQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=c3HWBzJKK1p8ebT/IJQh7KB27bolWr8dIl6vdVX7NLc=; b=Z7BysKrUYZDM3mCHTL/ggkgAZt8h3NLcCZsUWS3tR6ZCupPvAjjp4FuuTUhWBxbNkE dPDq0c8Vw5D/gvwu/5dAz+jJLFF1YTKPD+KtqFcKNMhZ+KojqXvHJFRpgN8o0MYnVq0o WYl9gwKyU+G/rcnXkGw9KHUIgVbear3WQPjXmAltpZ3mtU6ZM5CM4jC8AnyOLc37k5Wr b+0W/pEFyReh/oG6/whC9n2+auJSDGONs6wkJeXQKbvmInv2q1CLmht89W6cC3sKz36E sobw7xqD3Xqr/18SHtp5oX2SfrmQ+WCQFSF9fY8cv6WdHwp6i8yr7gQGaFTKuuBOIdql U4jw== X-Gm-Message-State: AElRT7GnpqFddtkILTKzIbv2xlNQFgo8SiZB+FOKoJkjs+j58zNQgxzX 723D0edyEFq9H0xX7vuElf7kTl2IN5AIb9PHnoc= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELsP4tPK3hqswFZbMhL6mXAQiStncfUWKiChk0EkhkRJUKcuhhlc/Jq0B+eTU1Nn7o+O/lc+qUEjmKimPG16Tuk= X-Received: by 2002:a24:9794:: with SMTP id k142-v6mr3559020ite.40.1521319866636; Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:51:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.79.146.25 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:51:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87r2oid0df.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> References: <67e865ac-3303-eda6-e14b-f56607d64908@gmail.com> <87r2oid0df.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> From: Christian Couder Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:51:06 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GSoC] Scripts to be conversted into builtins To: Yash Yadav Cc: git , =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= , Stefan Beller , Alban Gruin Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 7:26 PM, =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 17 2018, Yash Yadav jotted: > >> Hello, >> >> I am a student going through the GSoC process. >> >> In the project ideas listed there is one idea talking of conversion of >> scripts to builtins. This interests me but no pointer forward is given >> and I'd like to dive more into that idea and go through the script(s). >> >> So, where should I look further from here? > > One good place to start is to start reading at: > > git log -p --stat --full-diff --reverse 74703a1e4d.. -- 'builtin/*--h= elper.c' > > And then search for git-.*\.sh in your pager. These are a bunch of > commits where the bisect, rebase and submodule helpers have had their > shellscript code incrementally replaced by C. Yeah, and we have been proposing this kind of GSoC projects for a number of years now, so we have had a number of GSoC students doing this kind of projects, and therefore a lot of information about their projects is available in the mailing list archive.