From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A066EC43461 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2020 14:15:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A627206B8 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2020 14:15:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730603AbgIDOPI (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2020 10:15:08 -0400 Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk ([85.233.160.19]:40042 "EHLO smtp.hosts.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730348AbgIDOPB (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2020 10:15:01 -0400 Received: from host-92-30-127-66.as13285.net ([92.30.127.66] helo=[192.168.1.37]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1kECUT-0002La-3R; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:14:57 +0100 Subject: Re: Git in Outreachy? To: Jonathan Nieder , Christian Couder Cc: Jeff King , git , Christian Couder , Johannes Schindelin References: <20200828065609.GA2105118@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20200903060041.GH4035286@google.com> From: Philip Oakley Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 15:14:56 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200903060041.GH4035286@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 03/09/2020 07:00, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Christian Couder 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)? Are there worthy >> refactorings or improvements that we could propose as projects? > I think setting up something like snowpatch[*] to run CI on patches > that have hit the mailing list but not yet hit "seen" might be a good > project for an interested applicant (and I'd be interested in > co-mentoring if we find a taker). > > Some other topics that could be interesting: > - better support for handling people's name changing > - making signing features such as signed push easier to use (for > example by allowing signing with SSH keys to simplify PKI) and more > useful (for example by standardizing a way to publish signed push > logs in Git) > - protocol: sharing notes and branch descriptions > - formats: on-disk reverse idx > - obliterate > - cache server to take advantage of multiple promisors+packfile URIs > > Jonathan > > [*] https://github.com/ruscur/snowpatch A suggestion with high value for the Windows community - mechanism to map file names between the index and the local FS, should a repos file/path name already be taken, or invalid. [1] Philip [1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2803#issuecomment-687161483