Tool Renames Plan
=================
- - In 0.99.8, we will still install the backward compatible
- symbolic links in $(bindir). These will however be removed
- before 1.0 happens.
+ - Immedately after 0.99.9, the backward compatible symbolic
+ links in $(bindir) will be removed [DONE].
- git-ssh-push and git-ssh-pull pair is not going away within
- this timeframe, if ever. Each of these old-name commands
- continues to invoke its old-name counterpart on the other
- end.
+ git-ssh-push and git-ssh-pull pair is not going away if ever.
+ Each of these old-name commands continues to invoke its
+ old-name counterpart on the other end.
+ - There was a discussion to move bulk of the git-* programs out
+ of /usr/bin and use /usr/lib/git; the central mechanism was
+ done, but the actual move is postponed post 1.0.
-What to expect after 0.99.8
+
+What to expect after 0.99.9
===========================
This is written in a form of to-do list for me, so if I say
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* Help Jon Loeliger to find place in the documentation to place
- his drawing.
+ his drawing [DONE].
* Accept patches from people who actually have done CVS
migration and update the cvs-migration documentation.
support for this (but see below about optimized cloning).
* Maybe update tutorial with a toy project that involves two or
- three developers..
+ three developers.
* Update tutorial to cover setting up repository hooks to do
common tasks.
-* Accept patches to finish missing docs.
+* Do we still have missing docs? If so accept patches to finish
+ them.
* Accept patches to talk about "Whoops, it broke. What's
- next?".
+ next?" [Started].
* Accept patches to make formatted tables in asciidoc to work
well in both html and man pages (see git-diff(1)).
Technical (heavier)
-------------------
-* We might want to optimize cloning with GIT native transport
- not to explode the pack, and store it in objects/pack instead.
- We would need a tool to generate an idx file out of a pack
- file for this. Also this itself may turn out to be a bad
- idea, making the set of packs in repositories everybody has
- different from each other.
+* Assess the side effects of "make the rest of the things
+ magically work from any subdirectory" change by Linus. It is
+ a good change in principle and we would like to have that
+ behaviour but some tool implementations I am sure are assuming
+ to never run from anywhere other than the top. [Post 1.0]
+
+* Ref namespace management. Perhaps use refs/local/ suggestion
+ by Linus.
* Git daemon, when deployed at kernel.org, might turn out to be
quite a burden, since it needs to generate customized packs
precompute some packs for popular sets of heads downloaders
have and serve that, even if that could give more than the
client asks for in some cases. We will know about this soon
- enough.
+ enough [DONE part to allow using precomputed pack, but not
+ dynamic caching part].
* Libification. There are many places "run once" mentality is
ingrained in the management of basic data structures, which
[Daniel has his own diff tool almost ready to start
integrating and testing; Post 1.0]
-* Accept patches to fetch multiple objects by HTTP in parallel.
- [DONE]
-
* Plug-in file-level merges [Post 1.0].
-* Per-repository configuration mechanism.
-
Technical (milder)
------------------
-* Funny tag names and curl library.
+* Binary package split. Plan laid out and discussion mostly
+ done. [RPM side done; Debian side delegated]
- curl 'http://locke.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle.git/refs/tags/MOODLE_15_MERGED **INVALID**'
+* User-relative paths by Andreas Ericsson. [Need to ping]
-* Review the Makefile variables and exporting rules for them,
- while looking at prefix passing by Kai Ruemmler [DONE].
+* Proxing git:// connection by Paul Collins. [Need to ping]
-* Review the 'sparce object database' change by Linus and move
- the first phase of it to the "master" branch [DONE].
-
-* Decide on mmap(). I am inclined to just stick to mmap
- replacement by Johannes Schindelin and do nothing else right
- now, except perhaps drop the writing-back support [DONE].
-
-* Revisit Santi's patch to move commit temorary files out of the
- working tree toplevel [DONE].
-
-* More generally, review the use of temporary files again.
- Assuming writable $GIT_DIR is more acceptable, but the
- working tree toplevel may not be in a rare usage pattern.
-
-* Perhaps accept more "want"s in upload-pack and do something
- intelligent about it.
+* Maybe look at Cogito and see if I can help Pasky to adjust to
+ the later core features?
* Perhaps detect cloning request in upload-pack and cache the
result for next cloning request until any of our refs change.
-* Perhaps send less "want"s from fetch-pack.
-
* Encourage concrete proposals to commit log message templates
we discussed some time ago.
-* Accept patches to cause "read-tree -u" delete a directory when
- it makes it empty.
-
* Perhaps accept patches to do undo/redo.
* Perhaps accept patch to optionally allow '--fuzz' in
to say '\No newline' if both input ends with incomplete
lines.
-* What to do with TABs and LFs in pathnames without breaking GNU
- patch? [Discussion started.]
-
* Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well.
-* Perhaps a tool to revert a single file to pre-modification
- state? People with BK background know this operation as
- 'clean'. 'git checkout [-f] ent [path...]' was suggested by
- Matthias Urlichs which sounds a natural extention to what the
- command currently does.
-
* Enhance "git repack" to not always use --all; this would be
handy if the repository contains wagging heads like "pu" in
git.git repository.
-* Internally split the project into non-doc and doc parts; add
- an extra root for the doc part and merge from it; move the
- internal doc source to a separate repository, like the +Meta
- repository; experiment if this results in a reasonable
- workflow, and document it in howto form if it does.
-
- The point is to make it possible to fork that part off to
- somebody else; then I do not have to maintain Documentation
- directory myself anymore, just like I simply slurp the latest
- gitk from Paul and not worry about it ;-).
-
* Make rebase restartable; instead of skipping what cannot be
automatically forward ported, leave the conflicts in the work
tree, have the user resolve it, and then restart from where it
- left off.
+ left off [mechanism DONE; in pu].
* Output full path in the "git-rev-list --objects" output, not
just the basename, and see the improved clustering results in
* Updated git-changes-script Jeff Garzik needs [Inquiry for
external spec sent out with a quick hack. Will know if that
- is what he needs soon enough].
+ is what he needs hopefully soon].
-* An mechanism to ignore filesystem mode bits altogether.
+* Make sure we do reasonable thing on binary files even in
+ cherry-pick and rebase. [mechanism DONE; rebase in pu]
+
+* Customizable init-db. Personally I think template mechanism
+ is good enough. Otherwise, maybe add hooks/post-init-db.
Technical (trivial)
-------------------
-* short SHA1 naming is not enforcing uniqueness. Should fix [DONE].
-
-* 'git repack' can be DOSed. Should fix [DONE].
-
-* Stop installing the old-name symlinks [POSTPONED, but before 1.0].
+* Stop installing the old-name symlinks [DONE].
* 'git merge-projects'?
* 'git lost-and-found'? Link dangling commits found by
fsck-objects under $GIT_DIR/refs/lost-found/. Then
- show-branch or gitk can be used to find any lost commit. [A
- feeler patch sent out. Very underwhelming response X-<.]
+ show-branch or gitk can be used to find any lost commit.
+ [DONE]
Do not name it /lost+found/; that would probably confuse
things that mistake it a mount point (not our code but
projects / git.git / blobdiff