Andreia Gaita wrote: > > Implementing Git as class libraries in managed code > Matt Enright >
Ahoy. I'm one of the several hundred git developers, and one of the seven libgit2 developers. First of all, let me say I'm pretty excited about this, since World Domination is, as always, the ultimate goal of any oss project. I'll help in any way I can. My C# is far from stellar but my knowledge of git internals is not far from awesome ;-) Besides, algorithms aren't all that different between C and C#. It's mostly code layout, function names and namespace design that differs IME. Second of all, I'd like to wave the warning-flag here a bit. This project needs delimiters in order to have a chance to succeed. It's simply not possible to re-implement all of git in a new language for a single person in the short period of time that GSoC runs. This is particularly true if the developer in question lacks extensive knowledge about how git internals work today. A viable goal would be to restrict this to one of two areas: * Catering to IDE's that wish to incorporate version control into their UI (ie, write objects into the git object database, create tags and commits, switch branches, etc). OR * Catering to applications that wishes to display the history of a particular repository (think gitk or gitweb). Note that both of these goals will still be pretty hard to achieve, but at least it will be within reach if the student and his mentors are really, really good. The reason I fear a full re-implementation is not possible is primarily that git is still actively developed by a team of about 40-50 fairly active contributors. Keeping pace with them while starting from scratch will be challenging, to say the least. The other reasons are (in order): * The code is far from trivial, and there's a *lot* of it in C (around 100k lines for current 'master', not counting perl, tcl and shell-scripts). * jgit, which has been worked on extensively by one of git's most prominent contributors along with many others, *still* doesn't implement *all* of git.git. It's been in development for three years now. * Without support from git.git, there is no way, ever, that this will result in anything. Last years mono-git project didn't request any help what so ever from the git mailing list or any of git.git's prominent contributors. I hope I'm partially addressing that by coming here and announcing my interest in helping out. Time will tell, I suppose ;-) Hope I didn't put too big a stick in the spokes of fun, but it really is no fun at all to fail a GSoC student. It's twice as sad if it's because the goals originally set were impossible to achieve. -- Andreas Ericsson [email protected] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
