Hi,

On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 9:28 PM Kaartic Sivaraam
[off-list ref] wrote:

Just a gentle nudge for the project ideas. The deadline to apply for GSoC is Feb 3 18:00 UTC. We need the ideas page ready a couple of days before it at least.

Thanks for the nudge!

Feel free to chime in to suggest ideas that would be achievable by someone new-ish to the community. If you're doubtful whether an idea would be relevant for GSoC, feel free to share the same and we can discuss it.

Here are ideas I came up with:

1) Continue the current work on removing global variables.

2) Finish, and then maybe improve, some work Eric Ju started a long
time ago on `git cat-file`.

3) Improve git-backfill, or maybe a different command, so it can
remove large local blobs when they are available on a promisor remote
(for clients who want to get back disk space).

4) Implement some kind of fetch order when more than 1 promisor remote
is configured (this order could be passed from servers to clients
through the promisor-remote protocol to make sure the fetches happen
in the optimal order).

5) Make the promisor-remote protocol useful when the server wants to
advertise "better-connected" remotes (not just remotes the server
uses) as Junio suggested some time ago (see
Documentation/gitprotocol-v2.adoc).

6) Improve `git repo info` so it can show more information than now.

7) Improve `git repo structure` so it can show more stats than now.

8) Improve fast-export/fast-import and maybe git-repo-filter regarding
commit and/or tag signatures. This might conflict with GitLab people
(including me) possibly working on that soon though.

I would be willing to mentor any of them, but I don't have much
knowledge on `git repo`, so I think it makes more sense for me to
avoid 6) and 7).