Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-21 Thread Brian Bourn
Parts of v2, once again, i'd love some more comments on what I've rewritten On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:15:29PM -0400, Brian Bourn wrote: Going through the annals of the listserve thus far I've found a few discussions which

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Brian Bourn ba.bo...@gmail.com writes: Something like this? Sample api calls Add_Opt_Group() Parse_with_contains() Parse_with_merged() Parse_with_no_merged() Parse_with_formatting() (each of the 4 calls above may have internal calls within the library in order to parse the option for

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-21 Thread Brian Bourn
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Brian Bourn ba.bo...@gmail.com writes: Something like this? Sample api calls Add_Opt_Group() Parse_with_contains() Parse_with_merged() Parse_with_no_merged() Parse_with_formatting() (each of the 4 calls above may

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-21 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:03:41PM -0400, Brian Bourn wrote: What do they do, what does the caller expect to see (do they get something as return values? do they expect some side effects?)? so something like this would be better I'm assuming? Some basic sample API calls are found

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-21 Thread Brian Bourn
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:03:41PM -0400, Brian Bourn wrote: What do they do, what does the caller expect to see (do they get something as return values? do they expect some side effects?)? so something like this would be

[RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-20 Thread Brian Bourn
Hi all, This is a first draft of my Proposal for GSoC, I'd love feedback about what I might be missing and any other files I should read regarding this, so far I have read most of tag.c, branch.c, builtin/for-each-ref.c, parse-options.c. once again I hope I can get the same amount of helpful

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-20 Thread Brian Bourn
Hello again, Please it would be very helpful for me to get some comments on this proposal I would be very grateful towards anyone who could take some time to look at it, even if it's just the wording. Regards, Brian Bourn On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Brian Bourn ba.bo...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [RFC] [GSoC] Draft of Proposal for GSoC

2014-03-20 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:15:29PM -0400, Brian Bourn wrote: Going through the annals of the listserve thus far I've found a few discussions which provide some insight towards this process as well as some experimental patches that never seem to have made it through[1][2][3][4] Reading the