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3131
3232## Developer Spotlight: Toon Claes
3333
34- * Who are you and what do you do?
34+ * ** Who are you and what do you do?**
3535
3636 I'm Toon from Belgium. My name is pronounced like "tone" (rhymes with
3737 "bone"), and not like the "toon" in "cartoon", but usually I'm already
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4545 been circling back to more lower-level programming, contributing to Git
4646 using C.
4747
48- * What would you name your most important contribution to Git?
48+ * ** What would you name your most important contribution to Git?**
4949
5050 I'm fairly new in the Git community, but recently I've been working on
5151 adding [ ` git last-modified ` (1)] ( https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git-last-modified.html ) .
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5454 be used on forges (like GitLab, GitHub, Codeberg), to show commit
5555 data in a tree view.
5656
57- * What are you doing on the Git project these days, and why?
57+ * ** What are you doing on the Git project these days, and why?**
5858
5959 The subcommand [ ` git last-modified ` (1)] ( https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git-last-modified.html )
6060 was recently merged in the 'master'. But there's more work to be
6161 done to improve it's performance.
6262
63- * If you could get a team of expert developers to work full time on
64- something in Git for a full year, what would it be?
63+ * ** If you could get a team of expert developers to work full time on
64+ something in Git for a full year, what would it be?**
6565
6666 Once data is committed to Git, and it's made part of the history (i.e.
6767 committed or merged into the default branch), it's trapped forever. This
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8282 slope, because from experience I know Git users are very creative and
8383 might use this feature in ways that were not intended for.
8484
85- * If you could remove something from Git without worrying about
86- backwards compatibility, what would it be?
85+ * ** If you could remove something from Git without worrying about
86+ backwards compatibility, what would it be?**
8787
8888 The use of the double ` .. ` and triple ` ... ` dot notation in
8989 [ ` gitrevisions(7) ` ] ( https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrevisions#_dotted_range_notations )
9090 and ` git diff(1) ` . I even once ranted about it in [ a video] ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phThP8DwJVs ) .
9191
92- * What is your favorite Git-related tool/library, outside of
93- Git itself?
92+ * ** What is your favorite Git-related tool/library, outside of
93+ Git itself?**
9494
9595 I'm a big fan of [ Magit] [ 1 ] . It's arguably the best tool to interact
9696 with Git and I also learned a lot from it. I consider myself an
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9999
100100[ 1 ] : https://magit.vc/
101101
102- * Do you happen to have any memorable experience w.r.t. contributing
103- to the Git project? If yes, could you share it with us?
102+ * ** Do you happen to have any memorable experience w.r.t. contributing
103+ to the Git project? If yes, could you share it with us?**
104104
105105 One of my earliest contributions to Git was a bug fix in the code used
106106 by ` git bundle create ` . We noticed sometimes references didn't end up in
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120120[ 2 ] :
https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected] / 121121[ 3 ] :
https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected] / 122122
123- * What is your toolbox for interacting with the mailing list and for
124- development of Git?
123+ * ** What is your toolbox for interacting with the mailing list and for
124+ development of Git?**
125125
126126 I mostly live in Emacs and my terminal (zsh). I consume email in Emacs
127127 using [ notmuch] [ 4 ] . To submit patches I use [ b4] [ 5 ] , which I also
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143143[ 7 ] :
https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected] / 144144[ 8 ] : https://mesonbuild.com/Feature-autodetection.html#ccache
145145
146- * What is your advice for people who want to start Git development?
147- Where and how should they start?
146+ * ** What is your advice for people who want to start Git development?
147+ Where and how should they start?**
148148
149149 Learn to navigate [ the mailing list archive] [ 9 ] . It lacks structure so
150150 things can be hard to find, but there's so much information up there. If
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