On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 4:55 AM Bagas Sanjaya [off-list ref] wrote:

On 27/01/22 01.29, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

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   - Project ideas: There are two mentioned in SoC-2021-Ideas[3]
     but both were picked by GSoC students the previous year. So,
     we would need new ones this year.

I have several project ideas:

   - Document the "binary diff" format. Right now we have documentation
     for all diff formats used in Git, except for binary diff. Hint:
     read `diff.c`

It seems a bit small as a project idea. Also we usually propose code
related projects. It might be a good one for Google Season of Docs
though:

https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/

But I don't think we have ever participated in it.

   - Rewrite `git-request-pull.sh` in C. Currently the shell script
     implementation hard-codes message template and only outputs to
     stdout (though can be redirected to a file using shell means).
     In the C version, message template can be configured (with the
     default is same as current version) and introduces new
     `-o/--output` option to specify output file.

In https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2001301154170.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet/ (local)
Dscho put this script in the "Probably better to leave them as shell
scripts" category, so you might want to explain a bit more what would
be the benefits of converting it. Also would you be interested in
mentoring or co-mentoring a GSoC student working on this?

Thanks!