Re: Ensimag students projects, version 2013

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

My $0.02:

(BTW, feel free to edit the wiki. I've added a few bits from your
message there already).

* Allow "git add -p" to use "git diff --color-words" to show hunks 

[...]

  If neither one is possible my feeling is that it's one of the
  hardest tasks on the list. (Not to discourcage anyone from trying,
  but still.)

Yes, this was already inferable from the "See also the GSoC proposal"
statement and our discussions on GSoCs on this list ;-). It's not funny
if all projects are easy, but it's not a coincidence if this idea has
been there for a while without being implemented.

* git pull --set-upstream

  This is vaguely related to another itch that nobody has bothered to
  fix: 'git fetch origin foo' should really update origin/foo.  This has
  been discussed on the list a few times already:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192252
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165720/focus=165758

  which by the way would be a *great* thing to fix, hint hint ;-)  and
  since Peff already posted a POC patch in the first thread, it's
  probably not that hard.  (Peff?)

My understanding is that this would be technically easy to fix, but a
migration plan is needed, which isn't easy for a one-shot, one-month
contribution.

I've added it to the wiki.

* Allow git send-email --cc 'foo@example.com, bar@example.com' instead
  of git send-email --cc foo@example.com --cc bar@example.com

  That would be really nice.  Bonus points if it handles continuation
  lines etc. correctly, so that it's even easier to paste.

Added to the wiki too.

Thanks,

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

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:24:21AM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

* Allow git send-email --cc 'foo@example.com, bar@example.com' instead
  of git send-email --cc foo@example.com --cc bar@example.com

  That would be really nice.  Bonus points if it handles continuation
  lines etc. correctly, so that it's even easier to paste.

Added to the wiki too.

As an extension to this, it would be really nice if I could say "git
send-email --reply-to <file>", feeding it an existing message.  This
would set "To" and "Cc" appropriately but also quote the existing
message for me to reply to, either into the cover letter or after the
"---" in the patch (it's probably an error if there's no cover letter
and more than one patch in this mode).

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:24:21AM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

quoted

* git pull --set-upstream

  This is vaguely related to another itch that nobody has bothered to
  fix: 'git fetch origin foo' should really update origin/foo.  This has
  been discussed on the list a few times already:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/192252
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165720/focus=165758

  which by the way would be a *great* thing to fix, hint hint ;-)  and
  since Peff already posted a POC patch in the first thread, it's
  probably not that hard.  (Peff?)

My understanding is that this would be technically easy to fix, but a
migration plan is needed, which isn't easy for a one-shot, one-month
contribution.

Yes. The concept isn't that hard, but the question was one of whether it
would break some obscure workflows. But I don't remember all of the
details; I think I gave some examples in past threads.

-Peff