Re: Re: Google Summer of Code 2011

[Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:52:56PM +0100, Heiko Voigt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 09:50:23PM +0100, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:40:47PM +0100, Heiko Voigt wrote:
> > > I can offer to mentor a project either about submodule improvements or
> > > on gui stuff (git-gui or gitk). Since I am still not a native speaker of
> > > the full git code base co-mentoring would be an option for other
> > > projects.
> > 
> > That's sounds very interesting.
> > 
> > I'm using git with submodules a lot (daily in 5-10 different smaller
> > projects with 1-5 developers in each) and suffers from lacking submodule
> > support, specially in the gui-tools. 
> > 
> > Being a student this is a part of git I would be very interested in
> > helping to improve.
> 
> Sounds promising. When I was talking about gui or submodules I did not
> think about gui *and* submodules. Do you have some concrete areas you
> would like to improve in mind?

Many of the ideas I had was already mentioned in 
https://github.com/jlehmann/git-submod-enhancements/wiki/

The ones I feel is most important for me is:
* gitk: Add popup menu for submodules to see the detailed history of
changes
* Check before a push in the superproject that all submodules HEADs are
pushed
* Showing that a submodule has a HEAD not on any branch in “git status”
* Move the submodules git directories into the superproject’s .git so that
submodules can be created and deleted

With this said, I'm not familiar with the git codebase yet and does not
have any concrete solutions. For example, I don't understand why a
submodule doesn't get a default branch.

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