Hey! Thomas Thank you for replying over my woes. > > It is up to you how far you would like to go with this. If you want > to add the helper, to make further cleanups in t3600, I think that > would be a good thing to do (after double checking that it would be > useful in other test files as well), and should be done in a separate > patch. Then you can use it in the same patch as using the helpers for > "test -f" etc. > I guess I should work on this one first. I checked and around 18 test files use `test -s`, it will be useful nonetheless. > > Yes, I think it would be good to make those changes, to try and get > this merged. Having the microproject merged is not a requirement (its > main purpose is to see how students communicate on the mailing list, > and to get them familiar with the workflow ahead of GSoC), but it can > be a nice achievement in itself. > Yes, it is a nice experience to interact with people who "run" git over which most of the open source community depends for code sharing and collaboration. > > That said, I would also encourage you to start thinking about a > project proposal, as that is another important part that should be > done for the application. > That is really encouraging, I'll try to finish my work as soon as possible and work on the proposal side by side! Thanks Rohit