Re: Summer of Code project ideas due this Friday

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 06:10:17PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> 2. Merge libgit2 into git.git: polish the existing code in libgit2 so
>    that standard git can use it.  Presumably this would happen by
>    porting one function at a time, not by making git link to libgit2
>    immediately.  People familiar with libgit2 might be able to pick
>    out particularly interesting subsets to start with (diff
>    generation?).

That's definitely bigger than a SoC project at this point. However, one
smaller project might be to start implementing a subset of git commands
(probably plumbing) on top of libgit2, and then see how well the result
passes git.git tests.

> 4. filter-branch killer: using fast-import's new features to implement
>    common filter-branch operations (--subdirectory-filter,
>    --prune-empty, obliterating certain files) faster.

Yeah, I like that. Or maybe somebody can pick up git-sequencer, which in
theory could be used to filter-branch, too (or maybe sequencer can go on
top of fast-import? :) ).

> 5. rev-list: Coping with timeskew.

I don't think this is big enough for a SoC project. It's on my todo list
for the near-term, though.

> 7. packfilev4.

I suspect that is too complex for a SoC project. But you never know.

-Peff