Re: GSoC questions

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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:34:15PM +0300, Alexandru Sutii wrote:

> > Maybe I'm aiming at too much here. It could well be that it is worth
> > writing the minimal git client to just be able to test libgit2 using
> > the git tests. Does anyone want to comment ?
> 
> Hello!
> 
> There have been a lot on discussions on the mailing list regarding
> on what this client should look like and I understand that we are
> expected to come with a specific approach. Also I understand there is
> no interest for this project to become large.

It's OK if the project is large; it's inherently a big thing. But it's
important to bite off a small enough, useful chunk of it and work on
that. One, because you want something small enough to finish in the GSoC
time-frame. But two, because a small, solid start on a larger project is
much more useful to the community as a whole than a larger chunk that is
not-so-solid. Because people in the community (and you, if you want to
keep working on it!) may pick up the project from its state at the end
of the summer.

> Considering this circumstances I think we should implement the client
> with the basic commands by reusing git's high level code. I am for building
> it independently of the git's mainstream.

Yeah, I had always assumed it would build independent of git's
mainstream.

-Peff
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