From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>,
christian.couder@gmail.com, t.gummerer@gmail.com,
git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: Converting scripted commands to built-ins, was Re: [GSoC] Exploring Previous year Projects
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:57:43 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2001311055280.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2001311007590.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
Hi again,
On Fri, 31 Jan 2020, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>
> > On 1/30/2020 6:10 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > Large parts of `git submodule` are already implemented in `git
> > > submodule--helper`, so that's a head start (thanks Stephan Beller!).
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Realistically, I think that it would be possible for a GSoC student
> > > who is already very familiar with the code base and with submodules to
> > > finish the conversion of `git submodule` in one season.
> >
> > Even assuming the most generous definition of "very familiar" I'm not sure
> > this is the case. But I also don't meet the bar of "very familiar" when it
> > comes to the submodule code.
>
> Hmm. I guess you're right, and it actually matches my earlier assessment:
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1904031957480.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet/
I vaguely remembered that I had described this project in a lot more
detail in a Git for Windows ticket, and I just spent a couple of minutes
to coagulate it into a more concrete proposal here:
https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/541
Ciao,
Dscho
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-31 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-29 17:12 [GSoC] Exploring Previous year Projects Shourya Shukla
2020-01-29 19:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2020-01-30 11:10 ` Converting scripted commands to built-ins, was " Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-30 15:14 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-01-31 9:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-31 9:57 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
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