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=-3.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham 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 ECFAB1F424 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 08:41:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752057AbeDJIlf (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2018 04:41:35 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.22]:58683 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751886AbeDJIle (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2018 04:41:34 -0400 Received: from minint-aivcfq2.fareast.corp.microsoft.com ([37.201.195.115]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Mbx62-1enbli0wxK-00JNMd; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:41:32 +0200 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:41:30 +0200 (DST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@MININT-6BKU6QN.europe.corp.microsoft.com To: Eric Sunshine cc: vaibhav kurhe , Git List Subject: Re: Want to start contributing to git through this task: "Use dir-iterator to avoid explicit recursiv In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.1 (DEB 209 2017-03-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:ND3bjfJ4x91JsQmGSrdhulbE8R2QYB7PMAeBPz6likCmcus13Bt 7ivqDRB+cIhw9ZaXGLLL7dNbR164YBm+KKta+PIj4PrIr5q+xg0e1Ok4/pwrJGXIfZpVXTP nYp1rm8XOYNU6LchqM9ZGrefwI/2Yv7IllPEv5faGnokcAhw3G0kvFrjWV131zBgyxQsnPA E2AeB6NuxnoJdNdqc3W2w== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:O5pQ+M1v1bg=:+KDE8yGS9sBOg5+mZ7yXhM AnQChJ1mqxge58CrTpng/bI7b6kbfSntmPhO6IWBxCOvSlwkNJCedVhhoaMgekkLni/XdKlM/ C48UWMuV62uhvmz1Dis2wJ4ulW4eAo1KQKbf6nEUMQtKnwQCdIkbSYgBQJXlMedde+Ei1GIAJ zDhUPjqmbJYHUGl2WyqRJctDKMRZzzCI/+gpGq+sLdCdpQezGZPoL6r8+FOhr3v9G7zX2eH2D BXhmgdEDXIn2joXYRuUD2sLV0mB5mE8Rvt/jX95017HyrFrB9dm+8ouhW5I4QcDpo2Ri+4c4E NWmWQGt+gz5qnhNyix5R/lpHBnwHlvLE9Bohub9C04xDDDvl2HMj0etianSsENZvWl53uUjH9 Rp1uhDSJ1hS8O4I1ppAdx9fYWweDIahxxcPFbnh0kJ5c/E8EUGgvVbsMwChwSlqMW2vXpEQnC 7ag9ln/tRFoKXvXOPWW6EIDuQKiFi4LCSpWiO65komck9DnSgiizeaPeJAn+/D5/7LByXa3ef hcfdAvWcHQzjYye4Miu1HAQsoPN40HMl9BtccjobAfp7iSJgARBMos95/GX5ZjrDlYW/uGR5a 5yt+PQ6Nt9hdxQ4jI05SDAxK7qjwcoLaOSvjDaiINMSsc0fpwjKe4ZcdyiAV5UfjM0TKzttQO y83YD5qI4+yQB5NgdOZRzP8Tz79W6oYH7PzqiA4um+hL1rlqWCHn8br0dxWZ+hMIsCObVqzFw xmB6H2d0yCiqfXGjVh3m251iw+fXGqg/8t8NUnQu5fgBDUd4+HmMg9YKuL73jpEr0PirvplFh 1RMXV8S1WSdS734gUS5HyohFNHePk5OPVlTWVDFnXSAFuBe6jE= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:51 AM, vaibhav kurhe wrote: > > https://git.github.io/SoC-2018-Microprojects/. > > Out of the tasks listed down in above URL, I found this one interesting:- > > "Use dir-iterator to avoid explicit recursive directory traversal" > > I cloned the git repo and browsed through it. I found that in git > > clone (buildtin/clone.c), raw directory API readdir() is used > > recursively. > > So there is a place to change it to use the already available > > "dir_iterator" structure. > > I just want to know, if anybody is working on this task already. > > If not, then I can proceed to work. > > There has been no recent discussion on the mailing list regarding > this, so it is unlikely that anyone else is working on it. Indeed. Please feel free to reach out when you get stuck. If you want to show the code in progress, may I suggest to publish your topic branch to a public repository, such as on GitHub? Ciao, Johannes