Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-16 Thread Thomas Rast
Duy Nguyen writes: > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Thomas Rast wrote: >> Easy: >> >> * Add -p 'e' when it fails to apply should offer an obvious way of >> starting from the original hunk (not the broken one) or both > > If it's too easy, you can add a command to change diff display > setting

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-16 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Thomas Rast wrote: > Easy: > > * Add -p 'e' when it fails to apply should offer an obvious way of > starting from the original hunk (not the broken one) or both If it's too easy, you can add a command to change diff display settings (--color-words, context size..

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-13 Thread David Kastrup
Christian Couder writes: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jeff King wrote: > >> I think Google leaves it up to us to decide. I'd be OK with a project >> made of multiple small tasks, as I think it would be an interesting >> experiment. I'd rather not do all of them like that, though. And >> b

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-13 Thread Christian Couder
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: > >> > Some of Matthieu's students worked on it a few years ago but didn't finish. >> >> Right. There was still quite some work to do, but this is most likely >> too small for a GSoC p

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-13 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: > > Some of Matthieu's students worked on it a few years ago but didn't finish. > > Right. There was still quite some work to do, but this is most likely > too small for a GSoC project. But that could be a part of it. I'm not > sure ho

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-13 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:57:22AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > - git stash doesn't use --index as default > >http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/235892 > > I tend to think "git stash" was designed to work this way from day > one. Right. The thing that bothers me is

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-13 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:38:09AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > > > Jeff King writes: > > > >> - Branch rename breaks local downstream branches > >>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/241228 > > > > If you have a branch B that builds on A, if

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-11 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano writes: > Jeff King writes: > >> - Branch rename breaks local downstream branches >>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/241228 > > If you have a branch B that builds on A, if you are renaming A to C, > you may want B to automatically set to build on C in s

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-11 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > - Branch rename breaks local downstream branches >http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/241228 If you have a branch B that builds on A, if you are renaming A to C, you may want B to automatically set to build on C in some cases, and in other cases your

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-08 Thread Thomas Rast
Jeff King writes: > Below is a list of features / bugs that I am taking to the hackday. I have the list below at https://github.com/trast/git/wiki/Todo-items (started at git-merge last year). I did a quick triage, but don't take my word for it. Perhaps it's not too late for your hackathon

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-08 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:43:40PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > On a similar note, the GSoC application deadline is Feb 14th. I am > > happy to be admin again and put together the application, but we will > > need an idea page. I'll set up a page to collect them, but in th

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-08 Thread Thomas Rast
Jeff King writes: > On a similar note, the GSoC application deadline is Feb 14th. I am > happy to be admin again and put together the application, but we will > need an idea page. I'll set up a page to collect them, but in the > meantime, please dump any ideas/discussion in this thread. Sorry fo

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-06 Thread Matthieu Moy
Christian Couder writes: > I would be interested in mentoring a GSoC student working on the "git > bisect fix/unfixed" feature. Interestingly, I used the feature in real-life last week, and had to think upside-down to type the right "good"/"bad" keywords ;-). > Some of Matthieu's students worke

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-06 Thread Christian Couder
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Jeff King wrote: > > On a similar note, the GSoC application deadline is Feb 14th. I am > happy to be admin again and put together the application, but we will > need an idea page. I'll set up a page to collect them, but in the > meantime, please dump any ideas/dis

[RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-05 Thread Jeff King
This Saturday I'm going to be attending a Git hackday held by Bloomberg in New York. The participants will be eager C coders who have experience using git, but not contributing to it. As somebody who has read The Mythical Man Month, I don't expect huge productivity, but I'm hoping to do some bug tr