Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Ivan Tham <pickf...@riseup.net> wrote:
> > I am Ivan Tham. Currently studying in Computer Science in APIIT Malaysia. I 
> > am
> > interested particapate in Google Summer of Code 2017 under git 
> > organization. I
> > would like to attempt "Add more builtin patterns for userdiff" particularly 
> > for
> > shell for my microproject.
>
> I'd love to see proper shell support!
> Although there is already some support for shell (by looking at diffs
> on our test
> suite) ? So I am not sure what there is left to do? Can you clarify what 
> you're
> trying there?
>
> > I am interested to work on "Convert interactive rebase to C"

Are you sure about that? From what I had looked into userdiff.c, there is no
support for shell. There just a recent patch for [go patterns][0]. Or perhaps
I should have rename it as "userdiff.c: patterns for "shell" language"?

> +cc Johannes, who recently worked on rebase and the sequencer.
>
> >  aiming to port
> > most builtins stuff to C in which we can reduce the size of git. 
> > Additionally,
> > I would also like to convert scripts to builtins as an additional milestone.
> >
> > What do you think of these projects? Would it collide with
> > Valery Tolstov's Shell to Builtins proposal?
>
> Curious why all people ask about colliding with Valerys proposal here?
> I do not think it would collide, as submodules and rebase are very different
> areas of the code base.

[0]: https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqk27jvg28....@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/

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