[GSOC] Student Introduction - Reachability bitmap Improvements

[GSOC] Student Introduction - Reachability bitmap Improvements

[Shubham Mishra]

Hi,
I am Interested in Project - "Reachability bitmap Improvements".

I am Shubham from India, I am a 2021 graduate from Delhi University
and currently working as a Software Engineer at Microsoft. I am Open
source enthusiastic, I have been contributing to the Open Source
projects since a while. I was GSoC 2020 and SoK 2020 Student with KDE,
I was Linux Foundation mentee where I contributed to one of Anuket's
projects.

I always find myself fascinated by the softwares like linux kernel,
git, or simple commands like ping. Which impacts the life of almost
every software developer around the globe.

I am going through the blog [1] and I love the technique we are using
to fasten the queries. I have still not decided which one idea to pick
out of many mentioned under "Reachability bitmap Improvements" but I
think I will figure that out soon.
Can someone please tell me if a micro-project - "avoid pipes in git
related commands in test scripts" mentioned [2] is still available to
take? I have also gone through - MyFirstContribution.txt and
CodingGuidelines.txt docs and am looking forward to start sending
patches :). If any of you think I need to know something more, I will
be glad to get your suggestions.


[1] https://github.blog/2015-09-22-counting-objects
[2] https://git.github.io/SoC-2022-Microprojects/

(Sorry, if you received this mail multiple times, my previous attempts
failed due to html in gmail as default)
Thanks,
Shubham

Re: [GSOC] Student Introduction - Reachability bitmap Improvements

[Taylor Blau]

Hi Shubham,

On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 10:39:13PM +0530, Shubham Mishra wrote:
> Hi,
> I am Interested in Project - "Reachability bitmap Improvements".

Great! I am excited that you are interested.

> I am going through the blog [1] and I love the technique we are using
> to fasten the queries. I have still not decided which one idea to pick
> out of many mentioned under "Reachability bitmap Improvements" but I
> think I will figure that out soon.

Let me know if you have any questions about the projects listed there,
and I'd be happy to add some more details. Alternatively, if none of
them pique your interest, that is OK, too, and we can brainstorm other
potential projects.

> Can someone please tell me if a micro-project - "avoid pipes in git
> related commands in test scripts" mentioned [2] is still available to
> take?

Oh, yes. Here is a command you can run to find some of them:

    $ git grep "git[^|]*|\($\|[^|]\)" -- t

There are some false-positives, but that should give you a good starting
point to look for potential spots to touch up.

BTW, re-reading [2], I wanted to clarify that "The git command should be
on the left side of a pipe" is describing what we should remove, not
add.

I'm looking forward to your patches!

> [1] https://github.blog/2015-09-22-counting-objects
> [2] https://git.github.io/SoC-2022-Microprojects/

Thanks,
Taylor

Re: [GSOC] Student Introduction - Reachability bitmap Improvements

[Shubham Mishra]

Hi,

Thanks, I have started working on it. I have a little doubt, I can see
we are using pipe with other commands too (not just git).
I wanted to ask why we are only caring about error codes of  "git"
commands which get suppressed due to pipe. Not for other commands?

Thanks,
Shuabham

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 7:18 AM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Shubham,
>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 10:39:13PM +0530, Shubham Mishra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am Interested in Project - "Reachability bitmap Improvements".
>
> Great! I am excited that you are interested.
>
> > I am going through the blog [1] and I love the technique we are using
> > to fasten the queries. I have still not decided which one idea to pick
> > out of many mentioned under "Reachability bitmap Improvements" but I
> > think I will figure that out soon.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions about the projects listed there,
> and I'd be happy to add some more details. Alternatively, if none of
> them pique your interest, that is OK, too, and we can brainstorm other
> potential projects.
>
> > Can someone please tell me if a micro-project - "avoid pipes in git
> > related commands in test scripts" mentioned [2] is still available to
> > take?
>
> Oh, yes. Here is a command you can run to find some of them:
>
>     $ git grep "git[^|]*|\($\|[^|]\)" -- t
>
> There are some false-positives, but that should give you a good starting
> point to look for potential spots to touch up.
>
> BTW, re-reading [2], I wanted to clarify that "The git command should be
> on the left side of a pipe" is describing what we should remove, not
> add.
>
> I'm looking forward to your patches!
>
> > [1] https://github.blog/2015-09-22-counting-objects
> > [2] https://git.github.io/SoC-2022-Microprojects/
>
> Thanks,
> Taylor