Hi Nirmal, On Sun, 5 Jan 2020, Nirmal Khedkar wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I'd love to use this email to introduce myself to the community and > ask for help. > > I'm Nirmal Khedkar, student from India. I love making end user > applications, and in this FOSS world, there simply aren't many as big > and impactful as Git. I'd love to contribute Git for GSoC 2020 as well > as for long-term. > > Now the doubt: > I'm trying to wrap up the issue mentioned here > (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/486) : basically allowing > git bisect to work from subdirectories. I do consider myself okay in > C but I'm still kind-of stuck here: hence emailing this on the mailing > list. > > When you do "git bisect" in a subdirectory, an error "You need to run > this command from the toplevel of the working tree." is raised. The > error is raised in "git-sh-setup.sh" and the command begins execution > in "bisect--helper.c", but I cant understand how the error appears. > Additionally I'd love to know how the C files linkwith the numerous > shell scripts within Git. > > I've searched all I could within the Git project, but if there's any > existing documentation on this, please let me know. I answered on that ticket: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/486#issuecomment-571355006 Ciao, Johannes
