Hi all, This is a first draft of my Proposal for GSoC, I'd love feedback about what I might be missing and any other files I should read regarding this, so far I have read most of tag.c, branch.c, builtin/for-each-ref.c, parse-options.c. once again I hope I can get the same amount of helpful feedback as when I submitted my Microproject.
My name is Brian Bourn, I'm currently a computer engineering student at Columbia university in the city of New York. I've used git since my freshman year however this past week has been my first time attempting to contribute to the project, and I loved it. I'd particularly like to tackle Unifying git branch -l, git tag -l, and git for-each-ref. This functionality seems like an important update to me as it will simplify usage of git throughout three different commands, a noble pursuit which is not contained in any other project. Going through the annals of the listserve thus far I've found a few discussions which provide some insight towards this process as well as some experimental patches that never seem to have made it through[1][2][3][4] I would start by beginning a deprecation plan for git branch -l very similar to the one Junio presents in [5], moving -create-reflog to -g, Following this I would begin the real work of the project which would involve moving the following flag operations into a standard library say 'list-options.h' --contains [6] --merged [7] --no-merged[8] --format This Library would build these options for later interpretation by parse_options Next I would implement these flags in the three files so that they are uniform and the same formatting and list capabilities can be used on all three. The formatting option will be especially useful for branch and tag as it will allow users to better understand what is in each ref that they grab. For the most part I haven't finalized my weekly schedule but a basic breakdown would be Start-Midterm Begin deprecation of -l Spend some time reading *.c files even deeper Build Library(dedicate Minimum one week per function moved) Midterm-finish Implement the list flags Implement the format flags (if time is left over, add some formatting) Additionally I am thinking about adding some more formatting tools such as numbering outputs. What do you all think of this? [1]http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/More-formatting-with-git-tag-l-tt6739049.html [2]http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/RFC-branch-list-branches-by-single-remote-tt6645679.html#a6725483 [3]http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/RFC-PATCH-tag-make-list-exclude-lt-pattern-gt-tt7270451.html#a7338712 [4]http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/RFC-branch-list-branches-by-single-remote-tt6645679.html#a6728878 [5]http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/RFC-PATCH-0-2-RFC-POC-patterns-for-branch-list-tt6309233.html [6]https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/branch.c#L817 [7] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/branch.c#L849 [8] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/branch.c#L843 Regards, Brian Bourn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
