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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Joint project with Git for outreachy

From: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 05:50:27 -0700
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 2:13 AM ronnie sahlberg
<ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Jonathan,
> Hi Emily
>
> Emily, you want to contribute to wireshark? That is awesome. I think I
> speak for everyone to send a HUGE welcome
> your way and hope your experience working on and with wireshark be excellent!
>
> I think a git dissector would be really awesome.
> We do have a packet-git.c already in wireshark, but looking at it it
> is very barebones (understatement of the year:-)
> but getting a real full blown git protocol implementation would be
> totally awesome.
>
> I am more than happy to provide feedback and advice for Emily. We do
> have pretty good development documentation so it should be pretty easy
> to get started and get a development environment up and running.

I agree. More than happy to help someone get up to speed with writing
dissectors, and I am sure many other developers are as well.

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Regards
Richard Sharpe