Re: [jgit-dev] GSOC 2011 Git

[Sebastián Ventura <lomegor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, ok. That's great! The main reason I wanted to do this project was
because I was needing Git on my android (phone) to check some code out
and do minor fixes if I needed.
I'll be expecting your release.

Thank you all!
Sebastián Ventura

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is probably a good time to disclose that I'm actually writing an
> Android client for Git, and have been for the past few months! I'm planning
> to release it in a couple of weeks time - sorry, I didn't realise this was
> one of the proposals for the GSOC, otherwise I would have piped up sooner...
> It's been an interesting challenge, especially given the memory-constraints
> of Android devices - some of the early problems I ran into needed patches to
> JGit help reduce memory consumption, like I1d9b3a8b & I862afd4c - which
> happily ended up being beneficial in general, not just to googlephones :-)
> best regards,
> Roberto
>
>
> On 3 April 2011 22:43, Sebastián Ventura <lomegor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Sebastian Ventura, and I want to join the Google Summer of
>> Code 2011 by helping the git project. As you may know, one of the git
>> ideas for this year GSOC is porting
>> git to Android; as JGit is the closes thing that exist to git on
>> Android, I am asking you what do you think of this idea.
>> I'm sorry if this is not the correct place to ask this question but I
>> couldn't find another mailing list. So, do you think is plausible to
>> port git to Android? How far do you think is this project from that
>> idea? Has anyone already tried this?
>>
>> Thank you so much for reading this,
>> Sebastian Ventura
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