4 The latest copy of this document is found at
6 http://kernel.org/git/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;hb=todo;f=TODO
12 - In 0.99.8, we will still install the backward compatible
13 symbolic links in $(bindir). These will however be removed
16 git-ssh-push and git-ssh-pull pair is not going away within
17 this timeframe, if ever. Each of these old-name commands
18 continues to invoke its old-name counterpart on the other
22 What to expect after 0.99.8
23 ===========================
25 This is written in a form of to-do list for me, so if I say
26 "accept patch", it means I do not currently plan to do that
27 myself. People interested in seeing it materialize please take
34 * Accept patches from people who actually have done CVS
35 migration and update the cvs-migration documentation.
36 Link the documentation from the main git.txt page.
38 * Talk about using rsync just once at the beginning when
39 initializing a remote repository so that local packs do not
40 need to be expanded. I personally do not think we need tool
41 support for this (but see below about optimized cloning).
43 * Maybe update tutorial with a toy project that involves two or
46 * Update tutorial to cover setting up repository hooks to do
49 * Accept patches to finish missing docs.
51 * Accept patches to talk about "Whoops, it broke. What's
54 * Accept patches to make formatted tables in asciidoc to work
55 well in both html and man pages (see git-diff(1)).
61 * We might want to optimize cloning with GIT native transport
62 not to explode the pack, and store it in objects/pack instead.
63 We would need a tool to generate an idx file out of a pack
64 file for this. Also this itself may turn out to be a bad
65 idea, making the set of packs in repositories everybody has
66 different from each other.
68 * Git daemon, when deployed at kernel.org, might turn out to be
69 quite a burden, since it needs to generate customized packs
70 every time a new request comes in. It may be worthwhile to
71 precompute some packs for popular sets of heads downloaders
72 have and serve that, even if that could give more than the
73 client asks for in some cases. We will know about this soon
76 * Libification. There are many places "run once" mentality is
77 ingrained in the management of basic data structures, which
80 * Maybe a pack optimizer.
82 * Maybe an Emacs VC backend.
84 * 'git split-projects'? This requires updated 'git-rev-list' to
85 skip irrelevant commits.
86 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509221617300.23242@iabervon.org>
88 * Look at libified GNU diff CVS seems to use, or libxdiff.
94 * Encourage concrete proposals to commit log message templates
95 we discussed some time ago.
97 * Accept patches to cause "read-tree -u" delete a directory when
100 * Perhaps accept patches to introduce the concept of "patch flow
101 expressed as ref mappings" Josef has been advocating about.
103 * Perhaps accept patches to do undo/redo.
105 * Perhaps accept patch to optionally allow '--fuzz' in
108 * Allow 'git apply' to accept GNU diff 2.7 output that forgets
109 to say '\No newline' if both input ends with incomplete
112 * Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well.
114 * Perhaps a tool to revert a single file to pre-modification
115 state? People with BK background know this operation as
116 'clean'. 'git checkout [-f] ent [path...]' was suggested by
117 Matthias Urlichs which sounds a natural extention to what the
118 command currently does.
120 * Enhance "git repack" to not always use --all; this would be
121 handy if the repository contains wagging heads like "pu" in
124 * Internally split the project into non-doc and doc parts; add
125 an extra root for the doc part and merge from it; move the
126 internal doc source to a separate repository, like the +Meta
127 repository; experiment if this results in a reasonable
128 workflow, and document it in howto form if it does.
130 * Make rebase restartable; instead of skipping what cannot be
131 automatically forward ported, leave the conflicts in the work
132 tree, have the user resolve it, and then restart from where it
135 * Output full path in the "git-rev-list --objects" output, not
136 just the basename, and see the improved clustering results in
137 better packing [Tried, but did not work out well].
139 * Updated git-changes-script Jeff Garzik needs [Inquiry for
140 external spec sent out with a quick hack. Will know if that
141 is what he needs soon enough].
147 * short SHA1 naming is not enforcing uniqueness. Should fix.
149 * 'git repack' can be DOSed. Should fix.
151 * Stop installing the old-name symlinks [POSTPONED].
153 * 'git merge-projects'?
155 * 'git lost-and-found'? Link dangling commits found by
156 fsck-objects under $GIT_DIR/refs/lost-found/. Then
157 show-branch or gitk can be used to find any lost commit. [A
158 feeler patch sent out. Very underwhelming response X-<.]
160 Do not name it /lost+found/; that would probably confuse
161 things that mistake it a mount point (not our code but
164 * Add simple globbing rules to git-show-branch so that I can
165 say 'git show-branch --heads "ko-*"' (ko-master, ko-pu, and
166 ko-rc are in refs/tags/).
168 * We would want test scripts for the relative directory path
169 stuff Linus has been working on. So far, the following
170 commands should be usable with relative directory paths:
180 * In a freashly created empty repository, `git fetch foo:bar`
181 works OK, but `git checkout bar` afterwards does not (missing