(+cc: various relevant people for ideas)
Hi,
Robert David wrote:
> I'm long time user of git and very interested in development participation.
Welcome!
> Having passing your GSOC ideas, keep my eyes on scripts building in and also
> git add -p cleanups. Because I like this kind of work.
>
> Because there are more thinks to do in the cleanup and rewrite task, I would
> like to ask if there is some priority in these tasks? To let me focus on the
> most important parts.
Looking at the git-add--interactive.perl source, I see:
process_args();
refresh();
if ($patch_mode) {
patch_update_cmd();
}
[...]
and patch_update_cmd looks like
my @all_mods = list_modified($patch_mode_flavour{FILTER});
my @mods = grep { !($_->{BINARY}) } @all_mods;
[...]
if ($patch_mode) {
@them = @mods;
}
[...]
for (@them) {
return 0 if patch_update_file($_->{VALUE});
}
patch_update_file loops over hunks in the diff for that file and acts
on them one at a time. So a natural step might be to eliminate this
outer "for (@them)" loop, so the person at the keyboard could decide
to go back to a previous file or list all files and choose one.
Others may have more to say. If there are things you wished "git
checkout --patch" was able to do, that can also help.
> I was also thinking if there isn't PERL a better choice in rewriting shell
> scripts, due to planed porting (android, etc). Better than C. But I don't know
> android and other platform so much, so thats why I'm asking.
So far (on Windows and various Unixen) it seems that C is much easier
to work with as far as porting goes.[2]
Jonathan
[1] Android is an odd example because the platform uses Java heavily
(so JGit might be a better fit for it). Perhaps the wish for android
support should have been put on the Eclipse ideas page[2] and a link
added to git's; I dunno.
[2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011_Ideas#Ideas_submission
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