GSOC 11: Minimal git based client based on libgit2

GSOC 11: Minimal git based client based on libgit2

[Sarath Lakshman]

Hi,

I am an undergraduate student from India who wants to contribute to
libgit2 during GSOC. I have worked with Fedora and Pardus during GSOC
2008, 2009 and 2010.

I am interested to work on libgit2 based minimal git client. I have
built the libgit2 from source and tried to write basic git tasks. I
have written a lot of python code in the past and now I look for
writing good C code. Definitely, writing a git client based on libgit2
seems interesting.

I have been using git for my previous GSOC projects as well as
personal projects for the past two years. I also have reasonable
understanding of git concepts and internals. I checked out git-core
code and had a look at the test cases shell script from t directory. I
am confident to implement basic git operations clone, checkout,
branch, commit, push, pull, log for a CLI static self executable.

Looking forward to your response.

Thank you.
--
Happy Hacking,
Sarath Lakshman
http://www.sarathlakshman.com

Re: GSOC 11: Minimal git based client based on libgit2

[Ramkumar Ramachandra]

Hi Sarath,

Sarath Lakshman writes:
> I am an undergraduate student from India who wants to contribute to
> libgit2 during GSOC. I have worked with Fedora and Pardus during GSOC
> 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Thanks for writing.  Sorry about the late response.

> I am interested to work on libgit2 based minimal git client. I have
> built the libgit2 from source and tried to write basic git tasks. I
> have written a lot of python code in the past and now I look for
> writing good C code. Definitely, writing a git client based on libgit2
> seems interesting.

A lot of students are interested in this project.  Please browse
through the mailing list archives to see what the others have said --
Jonathan's response will probably be helpful [1].  Additionally,
please consider submitting more than one proposal to maximize your
changes.

Next steps: Post a concrete proposal to the list for feedback/
discussion.  You can make your application stronger by showing us some
code.

[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170094

-- Ram