As a first group project for this semester, we've built a graphical tool to pull and preview contributions Git repos in C++/Qt.
I was mostly concerned with network communication, i.e. pulling all details from GitLab. Groups, repos, all down to single commit details. Many rate limits were broken in the course of the development, but the resulting system works fairly reliably, even in the face of random 503 GitLab tends to return after it responds to thousands of requests in seconds.
This was my first serious dive in to the C++ and Qt ecosystem: I understand the appeal sometimes, but it's definitely not my cup of tea.
I was mostly concerned with network communication, i.e. pulling all details from GitLab. Groups, repos, all down to single commit details. Many rate limits were broken in the course of the development, but the resulting system works fairly reliably, even in the face of random 503 GitLab tends to return after it responds to thousands of requests in seconds.
This was my first serious dive in to the C++ and Qt ecosystem: I understand the appeal sometimes, but it's definitely not my cup of tea.