From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: End year project : minimal Git client based on libgit2 Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 08:18:48 +0200 Message-ID: <4DD4B648.8040509@op5.se> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Marc Pegon X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 19 08:18:57 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 1QMwZU-0004k9-U7 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 08:18:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932584Ab1ESGSw (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 02:18:52 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:62396 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932267Ab1ESGSv (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 02:18:51 -0400 Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so2072741bwz.19 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 23:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.14.129 with SMTP id g1mr2732417bka.122.1305785930286; Wed, 18 May 2011 23:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vix.int.op5.se (sth-vpn1.op5.com [193.201.96.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q25sm1398831bkk.10.2011.05.18.23.18.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 18 May 2011 23:18:49 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.10 ThunderGit/0.1a In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 05/18/2011 06:42 PM, Marc Pegon wrote: > Hello everyone. We are a team of four students from a French school of > engineering (Ensimag: http://ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr/). To end the > school year, we are supposed to work on a four-week full-time project, > under the supervision of Matthieu Moy, who has been following Git's > development for quite a few years now. We thought it would be > interesting to contribute to git/libgit2. We are especially interested > in one of the GSoC2011 ideas : Build a minimal Git client based on > libgit2 (http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SoC2011Ideas#Build_a_minimal_Git_client_based_on_libgit2) > Cool project :) > We started by taking a look at libgit2 API and Git source code, and we > have already begun to write some (quick and dirty) code. > We would like to know more about your expectations around the > "minimal" git client. What are the key features to implement ? > According to the GSoC proposal, we should implement some high level > functionalities (push, commit, branch...). Perhaps we should > concentrate on more "plumbing" commands ? > If you can make the plumbing commands work it should be trivial to script the other tools on top of the plumbing. Otoh, coding up the commands currently implemented as scripts in C with libgit2 as backend would increase the chance of acceptance into git.git proper, since you'd then be doing something worthwhile for the git core. Then again, creating bindings into other languages and writing up the minimal git in python or some such would also be extremely useful and worthwhile, and probably faster than writing the minimal git from scratch in C as well. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.