Re: Are you willing to serve as a Google Summer of Code mentor?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:44 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:

> Are you aware of any tasks in those areas (or elsewhere) that would make
> good GSOC project?

I'd like to see improvements in log -g, particularly the API's. I can
think of a couple off the top of my head. I think others have been
kicked around:

1) Add some kind of "depth/recursion" feature to control how far it
will recurse. This could possibly be expressed as none/one/infinity.
I am not sure there is a need for anything in between. Today we have
"none/infinity" and we really need support for "one" for performance
reasons.

2) When just getting "normal" logs, a boolean for the revision that
indicates if it was a "merge". The user of the API could then do a
follow-up log -g on just that revision when/if needed.

These are all in the name of being able to build a better revision
graph. I'd love to see a revision graph API but I think we need the
repository to track copies before that can happen. Until then, better
API for tools that maintain their own cache.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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