Thank you Christian for the help, I have another idea for a micro project "modernizing a test script". I have found test scripts that needs modernizing , which is to rename the setup test 'prepare reference tree' to 'setup'. Is it appropriate for a micro project and should I go ahead with it. On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 11:50 AM Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 12:26 PM Isoken Ibizugbe <isokenjune@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Good day, > > I am interested in working on this issue > > https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/1555 as a micro project. Is > > it worth doing and appropriate for a micro project? > > (I have added Dscho, alias Johannes Schindelin, in Cc as he might know > more about this.) > > I think it's worth doing, but I am not sure, as I think it might > generate regressions for a low number of users who might rely on > core.fileMode for some special use cases. (Not sure we would want to > support such hypothetical use cases though.) > > Also it's not so simple to implement, you will have to dig a bit in > the code, and not just implement it, but likely also write tests for > it. So it's definitely significantly more complex than a simple "test > cleanup" micro-project. I might overlook things too. > > But if you feel like it suits your skills well and are not afraid with > something a bit complex, I would think that you can go for it. > > Best, > Christian.
