On Sat, Mar 17 2018, Yash Yadav jotted: > Hello, > > I am a student going through the GSoC process. > > In the project ideas listed there is one idea talking of conversion of > scripts to builtins. This interests me but no pointer forward is given > and I'd like to dive more into that idea and go through the script(s). > > So, where should I look further from here? One good place to start is to start reading at: git log -p --stat --full-diff --reverse 74703a1e4d.. -- 'builtin/*--helper.c' And then search for git-.*\.sh in your pager. These are a bunch of commits where the bisect, rebase and submodule helpers have had their shellscript code incrementally replaced by C.