Re: Fwd: My Introduction and a Doubt

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Nirmal,

On Sun, 5 Jan 2020, Nirmal Khedkar wrote:

> Hey everybody!
>
> I'd love to use this email to introduce myself to the community and
> ask for help.
>
> I'm Nirmal Khedkar, student from India. I love making end user
> applications, and in this FOSS world, there simply aren't many as big
> and impactful as Git. I'd love to contribute Git for GSoC 2020 as well
> as for long-term.
>
> Now the doubt:
> I'm trying to wrap up the issue mentioned here
> (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/486) : basically allowing
> git bisect to work from subdirectories.  I do consider myself okay in
> C but I'm still kind-of stuck here: hence emailing this on the mailing
> list.
>
>  When you do "git bisect" in a subdirectory, an error "You need to run
> this command from the toplevel of the working tree." is raised. The
> error is raised in "git-sh-setup.sh" and the command begins execution
> in "bisect--helper.c", but I cant understand how the error appears.
> Additionally I'd love to know how the C files linkwith the numerous
> shell scripts within Git.
>
> I've searched all I could within the Git project, but if there's any
> existing documentation on this, please let me know.

I answered on that ticket:
https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/486#issuecomment-571355006

Ciao,
Johannes