From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Histogram diff, libgit2 enhancement, libgit2 => git merge (GSOC) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:44:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20110320234420.GA1919@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Pavel Raiskup , git@vger.kernel.org To: Vicent Marti X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 21 00:51:50 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 1Q1SPV-0005sU-Uq for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:51:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752165Ab1CTXvp (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:51:45 -0400 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([99.108.226.0]:45235 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751832Ab1CTXvo (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:51:44 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 438 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:51:44 EDT Received: (qmail 4959 invoked by uid 107); 20 Mar 2011 23:44:59 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:44:59 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:44:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:01:25PM +0200, Vicent Marti wrote: > b) Write a minimal Git client using libgit2. Peff keeps bringing this > up and I think it's a bangin' good idea. Write something small and > 100% self contained in a C executable that runs everywhere with 0 > dependencies -- don't aim for full feature completion, just the basic > stuff to interoperate with a Git repository. Clone, checkout, branch, > commit, push, pull, log. I would totally use that shit on my Windows > boxes. And since it'll be externally compatible with the original Git > client, we can reuse the Git unit tests to test libgit2. HA. Awesome! Yeah, I would be happy to mentor or co-mentor with Vicent on a project like that. Not only might it be useful to actually _use_, but my secret motive is that I'd like to start testing libgit2 using some of the regular git tests, both for interoperability and for performance. -Peff