On 05/18/2011 06:42 PM, Marc Pegon wrote: > Hello everyone. We are a team of four students from a French school of > engineering (Ensimag: http://ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr/). To end the > school year, we are supposed to work on a four-week full-time project, > under the supervision of Matthieu Moy, who has been following Git's > development for quite a few years now. We thought it would be > interesting to contribute to git/libgit2. We are especially interested > in one of the GSoC2011 ideas : Build a minimal Git client based on > libgit2 (http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SoC2011Ideas#Build_a_minimal_Git_client_based_on_libgit2) > Cool project :) > We started by taking a look at libgit2 API and Git source code, and we > have already begun to write some (quick and dirty) code. > We would like to know more about your expectations around the > "minimal" git client. What are the key features to implement ? > According to the GSoC proposal, we should implement some high level > functionalities (push, commit, branch...). Perhaps we should > concentrate on more "plumbing" commands ? > If you can make the plumbing commands work it should be trivial to script the other tools on top of the plumbing. Otoh, coding up the commands currently implemented as scripts in C with libgit2 as backend would increase the chance of acceptance into git.git proper, since you'd then be doing something worthwhile for the git core. Then again, creating bindings into other languages and writing up the minimal git in python or some such would also be extremely useful and worthwhile, and probably faster than writing the minimal git from scratch in C as well. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@xxxxxx OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html