Re: Getting started contributing.

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

adamfraser [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I would like to start contributing to git and am looking for a small project
idea to get started with. On the  Small Project Ideas wiki
<https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SmallProjectsIdeas>   site there is a
suggestion for adding a 'git rebase --status' command that sounds like it
would be good for someone who has little knowledge of the code base.

I think the two patches Duy just posted tonight overlap with that
topic, and I suspect it would give the end users a better experience
to put the information in "git status" output rather than a separate
"git rebase" subcommand.

(I'm the one who wrote the idea on the wiki)

"git status" already shows a lot of valuable information about rebase,
but my idea was that there's still room for a much more verbose command
(hence too verbose to appear in the output of "git branch" or "git
status"), saying eg.

* Which patch is being applied (we can imagine giving just the subject
  line by default, but showing the complete patch with an additional
  --patch option). I often miss that when trying to understand the
  origin of a conflict. I can manually look at file
  .git/rebase-merge/patch (I seem to remember a patch that shows the
  path to this file when rebase stops, but I can't find it anymore), but
  a nice porcelain would be nice.

* What's still on the todo-list

Also, perhaps this could gather the advices "(run git rebase <something>
to <do something>)" currently in the output of "git status", and "git
status may just say "(run git rebase --status for more information)"
instead of 2 or 3 lines of advices.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/