On 2024-03-26 02:25, Karthik Nayak wrote:
vk <g@xxxxxxxx> writes:
Hello!
Hello all,
I'm Vk and I work as a software engineer. I am interested in
contributing to git repository. Apologies for the late start as I only
stumbled upon GSoC recently and git project interested me as I use it
everyday at work and it would be meaningful for me to contribute to
it.
Even if I am not chosen, it will be great if I can start learning to
contribute to git open source.
For the microproject, I have looked into the lists for 2024 and it
seems
that all the projects have been taken except for `Replace a
run_command*() call by direct calls to C functions`. However, it seems
that the issue has been solved. The command I ran to search throughout
the repo is `git grep 'run_command*('` and the search result returns
run_command functions which I assume are essential.
When I ran the same, I saw around 135 results. Are you saying that
they're all essential?
For e.g. In `builtin/gc.c:maintenance_task_pack_refs`, shouldn't you be
able to replace the `run_command`?
My bad as the example uses `run_command_v_opt` and upon further
inspection it seems that there might be similar situations like the
example that can save an external process. However, for the
maintenance_task_pack_refs, the command being run is `git pack-refs`
which is a write process unlike the example which is a simple read only
process of `git show-branch` to get the current commit? I will be
searching the codebase for similar read only `run_command` and see if I
can replace them.
Thank you
