Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-16 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Thomas Rast t...@thomasrast.ch 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,

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-16 Thread Thomas Rast
Duy Nguyen pclo...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Thomas Rast t...@thomasrast.ch 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

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 gits...@pobox.com writes: Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: - Branch rename breaks local downstream branches http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/241228 If you have a branch B that

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 the data

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 how

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-13 Thread Christian Couder
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jeff King p...@peff.net 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

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-13 Thread David Kastrup
Christian Couder christian.cou...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jeff King p...@peff.net 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

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-11 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King p...@peff.net 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

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-11 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Jeff King p...@peff.net 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

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-08 Thread Thomas Rast
Jeff King p...@peff.net 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.

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 p...@peff.net 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

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-08 Thread Thomas Rast
Jeff King p...@peff.net 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

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-06 Thread Christian Couder
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Jeff King p...@peff.net 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

Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

2014-02-06 Thread Matthieu Moy
Christian Couder christian.cou...@gmail.com 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

[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