On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:35 PM Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 2:47 AM Christian Couder > <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Proposed on Outreachy's website: > > > > https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-december-2020-internship-round/communities/git/accelerate-rename-detection-and-the-range-diff-com/cfp/ > > As a heads up, I'm going to be sending many patches modifying quite a > wide range of diffcore-rename.c in the coming months for accelerating > rename detection. Maybe I'll get them all upstreamed before outreachy > starts, but that's not so clear. It starts at the beginning of December, so I think there is still time for you to get them upstreamed. > As I mentioned in the gitgitgadget > issue, the ideas outlined there and the methods I implemented are > different and complementary, but there is a pretty large risk of > conflicts we need to resolve if I don't finish landing all my patches > first. It could be a learning experience anyway for the intern, and in my experience it has never been a big problem before, so I am not very worried about this. Thanks for the heads up! > > > > > - Add support for drop!/reword! commits to `git rebase -i` > > > (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/259, > > > https://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1710151754070.40514@virtualbox/) > > > - Invent a way to retain reflogs for a while after the ref was deleted > > > (https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/236): I guess this might > > > be implemented as part of the new `git maintenance` builtin. > > > > I will also likely submit a proposal for one of the above projects.
