From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pranav Ravichandran Subject: GSoC - Contributing to Git Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:54:20 +0530 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 11 14:24:29 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 1Py2KR-0007xU-Rr for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:24:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755061Ab1CKNYW (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:24:22 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:32937 "EHLO mail-ww0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754938Ab1CKNYV (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:24:21 -0500 Received: by wwi17 with SMTP id 17so2572479wwi.1 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:24:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=YxvcQkcpVh1SwVRH9shDKSr18wtFnzBIxIoCTzWYZI4=; b=sMc+CybSEoo8NUdSmvjLjPX5nrk55rPL+0CBE9vB5ktGaPD8dIHtmCnE2uXXd1vWWU b95Vwre9Qgi17ITP/6GCL6fhlUOrICBURN9dHmzJFjwZtmq5jtSXoQ2bZHRHXHBhYOq+ /f8ayeT5LxvWT8J5KUOKqcc63ldU0W4uUDE38= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=pT8ERgZ6EUsDGDwLNwDUGXh22hnaFsuope+0TJvJmt90Nt1MuE5N2K/ZhCKPxlQCXP HI+IUeR0/CbexmSKPzjgoXu3JSZ8gULW1KxOY0rd86B/AfoedDTtsPl7GdFelE2OqarB pnbzvu4R7p5OEr6F55iVO7dHpqVVLvwtA7su0= Received: by 10.216.59.211 with SMTP id s61mr4693218wec.12.1299849860752; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:24:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.69.85 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:24:20 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, everyone. I was peering over the previous years' GSoC ideas for Git, and I wish to apply to work with Git in the upcoming GSoC '11. I found the Restartable Clone idea from the GSoC 2008 ideas page interesting, and am keen on working on it. I'm a basic C/C++/Python programmer, and my previous programming experience has mainly been related to maths, algorithms and logic, pretty much formal-education stuff. I was taught basic C in high school and I spent time in expanding to C++ and Python. I have coded a few applications in these languages out of my own whim, and have been dabbling in shell-scripting for a while. I have no Open Source development experience, but I've brought myself upto speed with how open source communities work, and the mandatory tools like vcs, bugtrackers, patches, compiling from source, etc. That said, I'd like to know if my programming knowledge will suffice to apply as a student for Git in GSoC. If so, I'd like to get started on the Restartable Clone idea and start learning the necessary stuff and work on it :) Thanks, Pranav.