Re: [Outreachy] Introduction and Interest in Contributing to the Git Community

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 12:26 PM Isoken Ibizugbe <isokenjune@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good day,
> I am interested in working on this issue
> https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/1555 as a micro project. Is
> it worth doing and appropriate for a micro project?

(I have added Dscho, alias Johannes Schindelin, in Cc as he might know
more about this.)

I think it's worth doing, but I am not sure, as I think it might
generate regressions for a low number of users who might rely on
core.fileMode for some special use cases. (Not sure we would want to
support such hypothetical use cases though.)

Also it's not so simple to implement, you will have to dig a bit in
the code, and not just implement it, but likely also write tests for
it. So it's definitely significantly more complex than a simple "test
cleanup" micro-project. I might overlook things too.

But if you feel like it suits your skills well and are not afraid with
something a bit complex, I would think that you can go for it.

Best,
Christian.