On 2024-03-26 02:25, Karthik Nayak wrote:

vk [off-list ref] writes:

Hello!

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Hello all,

I'm Vk and I work as a software engineer. I am interested in
contributing to git repository. Apologies for the late start as I only
stumbled upon GSoC recently and git project interested me as I use it
everyday at work and it would be meaningful for me to contribute to 
it.
Even if I am not chosen, it will be great if I can start learning to
contribute to git open source.

For the microproject, I have looked into the lists for 2024 and it 
seems
that all the projects have been taken except for `Replace a
run_command*() call by direct calls to C functions`. However, it seems
that the issue has been solved. The command I ran to search throughout
the repo is `git grep 'run_command*('` and the search result returns
run_command functions which I assume are essential.

When I ran the same, I saw around 135 results. Are you saying that
they're all essential?

For e.g. In `builtin/gc.c:maintenance_task_pack_refs`, shouldn't you be
able to replace the `run_command`?

My bad as the example uses `run_command_v_opt` and upon further 
inspection it seems that there might be similar situations like the 
example that can save an external process. However, for the 
maintenance_task_pack_refs, the command being run is `git pack-refs` 
which is a write process unlike the example which is a simple read only 
process of `git show-branch` to get the current commit? I will be 
searching the codebase for similar read only `run_command` and see if I 
can replace them.

Thank you