Interested in working on " Attachment support for Kart" project from GSOC ideas list.

[Zumitify]

Hi folks of the community,
My name is Sumit. I am currently working as a SDE and have completed my bachelor's in Computer Engineering in May 2020.
I have managed to build Kart locally and I am currently exploring the product, codebase & running test cases.

Problem statement: Attachment support for Kart

I have gone over the issue details and the high-level objective of the project is clear to me. My technical skills are aligned with the requirements and I am well versed in working with large codebases.

Big job. The following existing Git technologies may be useful here: index files, and sparse checkouts
A good first step would be to simply detect and log which attachments have changed between two commits

As my next step, I plan to explore the internal working of kart diff and read about index files and sparse checkouts etc .

• @olsen232 Would you suggest any other topics/resources that I should go over which will help me with this project?

Having been a cartophile, GSOC + Kart can provide me a good opportunity to kickstart my open source journey. I look forward to hearing from you and working on this project.
Thanks.

[rcoup]

Hi Sumit,

Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. The Pro Git book and the Git documentation probably have the best general overview of the concepts, and for even more technical specifics there are deep-dive blog posts you will find on the web. Kart generally works the same as Git, except for our particular focus on "datasets" and "features/rows" which is different from how Git works.

[Zumitify]

Hi Robert, thanks for the reply. I will surely go through the resources suggested.

[rcoup]

Ah, I saw your Google doc and added some comments there.