[Open discussion on idea] Git shell prompt daemon

[Ratnadeep Debnath]

Git shell prompt daemon

Status: Proposed

Summary of idea: Fedora packaging is heavily dependant on git. Without
specialized git tools, maintenance of tens or hundreds of Fedora
packages can become tedious.

This project is about implementing a deamon which would listen on
named pipe to requests from system shell (like bash) and it would
respond with command line prompt dependant on context (like status of
git repository in given directory) and user configuration.

The core of the daemon should not rely on git, but instead be written
using plugin framework allowing different plugins to be implemented.
Each plugin could provide different information to be displayed in
shell prompt.

Besides the core, a git plugin should be implemented. This plugin
should not call git executable, but instead use a git library (such as
libgit2 which has bindings for many languages).

Knowledge prerequisite: Git, Linux, any programming language which has
bindings for libgit2 [1]

Skill level: Medium

Contacts: Mikolaj Izdebski [2]

Mentor(s): Mikolaj Izdebski [2], Stanislav Ochotnicky [3] (backup)

[1]: http://libgit2.github.com/
[2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mizdebsk
[3]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sochotni

Regards,
rtnpro
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Ratnadeep Debnath,
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