[GSoC] Intro and Micro-project

[Edwin Fernando <edwinfernando734@gmail.com>]

Hello,
I am Edwin, a first year undergrad in the department of computing,
Imperial College London. This is my first message to this mailing
list! I want to work on the micro-project "avoiding pipelines in test
scripts".
I'm really excited to work on such a massive project (ie, git, not the
microproject) and be in contact with the people who put it all
together. I'm curious about how software development works at this
scale, since it feels quite different from the small projects I've
used to work on. I use bash quite frequently for automating tasks, and
I have experience in C, through a uni project of making an assembler.

I found and looked at a few places with pipes. I have a few thoughts
and questions on making a change. Firstly (if this is relevant), how
do I ensure that the file I write the std output to doesn't have a
name clash with other such files made during tests?

I will follow up with an email of the proposed patch.
Regards,
Edwin.