From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corey F Subject: GSoC git-add--interactive improvements Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:07:26 -0700 Message-ID: <4F7BC8FE.4060808@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 04 06:07:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SFHVS-0002Ie-Ik for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:07:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750918Ab2DDEHb (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2012 00:07:31 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:64437 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750824Ab2DDEHa (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2012 00:07:30 -0400 Received: by obbtb18 with SMTP id tb18so638760obb.19 for ; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:07:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=v7Mu/YlN5Q3NgapNMMmidsB8eHb/uGruIggnKoOIR54=; b=z8IbWov8PTRzLVssGV2ECJAanjMf5JvnFI+t4whxXN48LbaXXDuDjNgQtJaFpOmiKJ t0lOheR5Qb/GFh5Ki6e6Uy0wS2wErhwIIE0+nGtNI1GywzMCEIMmVJnn/5RR9zUGpqzS xYVOkqqlC/EPww4WP36gjoxj0mOR7nURpvoxSYAHKCLyrLMrrHSm6azSb31zLmb5+3Ee G2W2GqrgrPjg1tNK1vvvz+W/Xub148xdH7wV1TNgLz5d7j/4nb0C/jMvC+p0Yusyzhb8 u4LBOPp1mWD4AZu7KvV362Ea7DFRcXnjYg+LuDDTp7OLxPM1aWCMkMa+3+XdIlfZlv2v y5kw== Received: by 10.60.0.135 with SMTP id 7mr22388600oee.25.1333512449935; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [198.188.150.160] (pcp037279pcs.cabrillo.reshall.calpoly.edu. [198.188.150.160]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s2sm18942139oea.2.2012.04.03.21.07.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:07:28 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20120216 Icedove/8.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi all, I'd be interested in making improvements to the git add -p (etc.) interface as a Google Summer of Code project, as suggested on the ideas page [1]. The page lists some interesting ideas for both larger architectural changes and smaller interface improvements, though I agree that getting lots of community input during the project will be important. So at this point I'm wondering how much I should plan out in my proposal -- maybe pin down a few important features and a process for getting more input? Last year's SoC ideas page included rewriting some commands in C, including this one. I'm at least as comfortable with C as with Perl, but I'm guessing that incorporating a rewrite into the project would be an ambitious and/or dangerous idea. Any thoughts on how best to approach this project idea are welcome. Alternately, the "ultimate content tracking" tool to find similar sections that might have been the basis for newly added lines sounds intriguing, and I will refresh myself on the previous list discussion regarding that idea. Thanks, Corey 1: https://github.com/peff/git/wiki/SoC-2012-Ideas