From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [GSoC15] Interested in contributing to git Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:20:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Tan X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 03 17:20:37 2015 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 1YSpYi-0003fc-Ox for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:20:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754977AbbCCQUc (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:20:32 -0500 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:46030 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752042AbbCCQUc (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:20:32 -0500 Received: from clopinette.imag.fr (clopinette.imag.fr [129.88.34.215]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t23GKNkB030556 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 3 Mar 2015 17:20:23 +0100 Received: from anie.imag.fr (anie.imag.fr [129.88.7.32]) by clopinette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t23GKP7k018182; Tue, 3 Mar 2015 17:20:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Paul Tan's message of "Tue, 3 Mar 2015 23:56:11 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:20:24 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: t23GKNkB030556 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1426004427.20964@u5ZZVJiyjqfFZ2VBNgnviw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Paul Tan writes: > Hi all, > > git is one of the projects that I wish to contribute to for Google > Summer of Code 2015 as it's an integral part of my workflow. I'm from > Singapore, and have been accepted to the National University of > Singapore for Computer Engineering, and will only matriculate on 3 Aug > 2015. Be carefull: a GSoC is a full-time job. The GSoC itself ends on August 21st, so there would be a substantial (too big?) overlap between the GSoC and your studies. > I understand that I have to complete a microproject. I would like > complete "Move ~/.git-credentials and ~/.git-credential-cache to > ~/.config/git". I'm thinking that the XDG locations should take > precedence over the non-XDG locations? The logic is different for reading and for writting, see how Git deals with it for ~/.gitconfig for example. Essentially, we read both, and we write to the one which exists if there's only one. I'm the one who proposed this microproject, and some feedback on the mailing-list was that it was not so "micro" and probably too big already. Both for the microproject and the GSoC itself, don't be too ambitious on the feature you target, and don't underestimate the effort needed to get from "the code looks OK to me" to "the code has been reviewed on list and merged upstream". Cheers, -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/