From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: Summer of Code project ideas due this Friday Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:28:05 +0100 Message-ID: <201103111428.05627.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <20110310001017.GA24169@elie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Jeff King , Shawn Pearce , Ramkumar Ramachandra , Jens Lehmann , Christian Couder , git To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 11 14:28:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Py2O7-0001BW-Br for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:28:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751278Ab1CKN2K (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:28:10 -0500 Received: from edge20.ethz.ch ([82.130.99.26]:13894 "EHLO edge20.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750807Ab1CKN2J (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:28:09 -0500 Received: from CAS21.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.111) by edge20.ethz.ch (82.130.99.26) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.270.1; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:27:54 +0100 Received: from pctrast.inf.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS21.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.111) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.270.1; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:28:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.37-9-desktop; KDE/4.5.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes: > > > 4. filter-branch killer: using fast-import's new features to implement > > common filter-branch operations (--subdirectory-filter, > > --prune-empty, obliterating certain files) faster. > > How it would be different from existing reposurgeon tool by ESR > (cross-VC thanks to using fast-import format), or git_fast_filter by > Elijah Newren (more of a library than a ready tool)? Git integration? I haven't looked at these tools for long enough to say how much they fit the ticket and how fast they are, so for me it's hard to say how much work it would be. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch