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From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Git in Outreachy?
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 22:01:38 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9b7cac1-1993-dbf9-a048-a81c2c39a906@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441bd08b-ca7d-5977-a455-c4c2a4bd4bc9@gmail.com>

On 07-09-2020 00:26, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:>
>> I would appreciate help to find project ideas though. Are there still
>> scripts that are worth converting to C (excluding git-bisect.sh and
>> git-submodule.sh that are still worked on)? 
> 
> I think Dscho's e-mail linked below gives a nice overview of the various
> scripts and their likely status as of Jan2020:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2001301154170.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet/
> 
> I'm guessing only the status of submodule has changed as it's being
> worked on now.
> 

After giving it a second thought, I believe I should take back my word
about the git-submodule status changing. There still seems to be some
work left for it. To be clear,

- there's 'add', whose conversion is currently stalled [1]
- there's 'update', which still has a decent amount of code [2]
  in the shell script.
- we still have to complete the conversion completely converting
  moving the rest of the bits from `git-submodule.sh` to C which is
  mostly just the option parsing. This might be more trickier than
  it sounds as we would've to ensure the we don't accidentally
  change behaviour of the options when moving the option parsing to C.

  There's also an e-mail from Junio which is relevant [3]

I'm not sure if this would be enough for a complete project on it's own.
I'm also not sure whether 'add' would get converted in the meantime. In
any case, I believe we could add a few other small refactoring projects
to make up for the rest of the period. For instance,

- Replace more instances of `the_index` and `the_repository`
  (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/379)

- Turn the `fetch_if_missing` global into a field of `struct repository`
  (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/251)

- Possibly others from #leftoverbits

Thoughts?


References
===
[1]:
http://public-inbox.org/git/20200824090359.403944-1-shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com/
[2]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.28.0/git-submodule.sh#L554-L713
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtuzrrk8r.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/

-- 
Sivaraam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-20 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-28  6:56 Git in Outreachy? Jeff King
2020-08-31  6:55 ` Christian Couder
2020-09-03  6:00   ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-09-04 14:14     ` Philip Oakley
2020-09-07 18:49       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-16 15:16         ` Philip Oakley
2020-09-16 18:43           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-17 14:42             ` Philip Oakley
2020-09-09 18:26     ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-10  1:39       ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-09-10  2:19         ` Taylor Blau
2020-09-16  9:12     ` Christian Couder
2020-09-16  6:42   ` Christian Couder
2020-08-31 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-31 18:05 ` Emily Shaffer
2020-09-01 12:51   ` Jeff King
2020-09-03  5:41     ` Jeff King
2020-09-15 17:35       ` Jeff King
2020-09-15 17:55         ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-09-15 18:02           ` Jeff King
2020-09-19  8:12         ` Christian Couder
2020-09-19 15:10           ` Phillip Wood
2020-09-16  8:45     ` Christian Couder
2020-09-02  4:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-16  9:01   ` Christian Couder
2020-09-16  9:45     ` Phillip Wood
2020-09-17  9:43     ` Christian Couder
2020-09-17 10:14       ` Phillip Wood
2020-09-18  8:37         ` Christian Couder
2020-09-17 15:34       ` Elijah Newren
2020-09-18  8:42         ` Christian Couder
2020-09-27 16:59     ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-09-27 21:16       ` Christian Couder
2020-10-29 10:13         ` Christian Couder
2020-09-06 18:56 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-09-07 18:55   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-16  9:35     ` Christian Couder
2020-09-16 20:27       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-19  7:40         ` Christian Couder
2020-09-20 15:06           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-20 16:31   ` Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]
2020-09-21  4:22     ` Christian Couder
2020-09-21  7:59       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-09-21 20:56       ` Shourya Shukla
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-09-03  2:40 Taylor Blau
2021-09-03 18:33 ` Emily Shaffer
2021-09-04  4:30 ` Christian Couder
2021-09-04  7:40   ` ZheNing Hu
2021-09-04 12:50     ` Jeff King
2021-09-05  8:58       ` ZheNing Hu
2021-09-06 12:36         ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-09-07  5:50           ` ZheNing Hu
2021-09-04 17:51 ` Taylor Blau
2021-09-18 16:10 ` Taylor Blau
2021-09-20  7:45   ` ZheNing Hu
2021-09-20 14:52     ` Christian Couder
2021-09-20 15:15       ` Christian Couder
2021-09-21  5:41         ` ZheNing Hu
2021-09-21 15:39           ` Christian Couder
2021-09-22 15:01             ` ZheNing Hu
2021-09-21  5:39       ` ZheNing Hu
2021-09-21 15:35         ` Christian Couder
2021-09-22 14:58           ` ZheNing Hu
2021-09-21 21:25   ` Taylor Blau
2021-09-29 14:18     ` Christian Couder
2021-09-29 17:34       ` Taylor Blau
2021-09-29 20:30         ` Taylor Blau

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