Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: GIT

[saurabh gupta <saurabhgupta1403@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:29 AM,  <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, saurabh gupta wrote:
>
>> Very well described, David. I agree with you and providing these merge
>> options to the user, merge drivers can do the work and mark the
>> conflicts according to the option. The work to do is to modify the
>> merge driver. I think in this way, even people who have only a
>> terminal can also gain from it. They can choose the apt option to see
>> the conflict markers in their way. So, the aim is to make merge driver
>> configurable and create the merged/conflicted file according to the
>> options.
>
> for the GSOC I suspect that the right thing to do is the define one or more
> merge drivers to create, and list what applications are going to be used for
> testing these merges.
>
> you and the mentor can decide what is a reasonable amount of work.
>

I will very glad to hear about this thing from the mentor (Johannes
Schindelin, according to wiki). I will try to plan out the things in a
proper way to carry out this project if I get a chance to work on this
for GSoC 2009.

> it may be just doing an XML merge driver is a summer's worth of work, or it
> may be that it's not really enough and you should try to do another one or
> two.
>
> it also may be that there is a lot of overlap between different merge
> drivers, and once you have the XML driver the others become fairly trivial
> to do. (I'm thinking the config file examples I posted earlier in the
> thread)

with the options given to the user, one can handle the config files
also where order doesn't matter and also the whitespaces problem can
also be handled in the similar way.


-- 
Saurabh Gupta
Senior,
NSIT,New Delhi, India