Hi, As you may know, I have been familiarising myself with Subversion with a view to obtaining an internship under the Outreach Program for Women. However, I have yet to decide on a project.
For those that aren't aware, this is a 3 month sponsored internship similar to the Google Summer of Code. Stefan Sperling is acting as a mentor and has produced an introduction which is available at http://subversion.apache.org/opw.html. This page includes an outline of a number of possible projects. My current thought is to work on the diff project as an intro. However, in discussion with Stefan, it became clear that I ought to consult this list before making project decisions. My current feeling is that I'd like to start with improvements to "svn diff". Diff Project Proposal --------------------- Background: by default, the invocation of the external diff command provides the following arguments: -u -L README (revision 1426849) -L README (working copy) \ .svn/text-base/README.svn-base /tmp/svn-zuV07j This breaks down as follows: -u: default switch. Replaceable by "--extended-command <switches>" -L: default label switch. Not configurable. My initial analysis suggests the following changes: 1. Ensure that svn diff -x "" or svn diff --extensions "" or Config file property set to: diff-extensions = calls a configured external diff command with no "-u" argument. (as per http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2074) 2. Allow configuration of the "label" argument Format to be agreed, but for the sake of this discussion, let's say there is a config property: diff-label-switch = ... (As per http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2044) 3. Allow an unlimited number of diff commands to be specified as follows: diff-n-cmd = ... diff-n-mime-type = ... diff-n-extensions = ... diff-n-label-switch = ... This would provide changed behaviour for each mime-type. --------------------- I'd welcome comments or improvements to this. Have I even understood the problems correctly? This feels like a fairly small piece of work. In addition, I plan to make some small patches for the website (for example, documenting the setting up Apache so that it displays the web site. I'm also interested in possible changes to the help system, but I feel much less confident about this piece. But this would leave space for other projects. Does anyone have ideas for good (relatively small) projects to help me learn the code base? Regards Gabriela
