Richard Sharpe wrote: > Amanda Shafack wrote: >> Good day. >> >> I'm Amanda Shafack, an Outreachy 2020 applicant who wishes to >> contribute to the "Add Git protocol support to Wireshark" project. >> >> I have some experience coding in C and I hope to enhance >> my skill set by contributing to this project. >> >> In addition, I'm fascinated by network protocols and it's really >> exciting to get my hands around these concepts in a real-world >> project. >> >> I'm currently going through the project description and contribution >> guidelines. > > Welcome. There are many helpful people on the list. > > It would be useful if you can point us to a protocol description > document but that can wait until help is needed. It may be that all > the online resources are sufficient, but if not, do not hesitate to > use this list to ask questions. There's an overview of Git's HTTP protocol in the Pro Git book: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Transfer-Protocols The official protocol spec in git.git (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git) is split between a few files: Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt: conventions for protocol docs Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt: overview of Git protocol Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt: optional capabilities Documentation/technical/protocol-v2: protocol v2, the new default (more about this is at https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-git-protocol-version-2.html) Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt: how this works with http Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt: packed representation of Git objects (used both on disk and over the wire) Amanda, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask (#git-devel on IRC is the best place for that, and email works as well). I am there around 15:00-24:00 UTC most days. In addition to working on your initial starter contributions, we can start to put together a plan for the project. Richard, to set expectations: the internship period for accepted interns starts in December: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/. Until then, potential interns are often not free full time, so we focus on smaller contributions that help get their feet wet in the codebase. Excited, Jonathan
