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-What to expect until and after 1.0
-==================================
+What to expect from now on
+==========================
This is written in a form of to-do list for me, so if I say
"accept patch", it means I do not currently plan to do that
if ever -- only if somebody cares enough and submits a clean
patch, perhaps ;-).
-Only handful things remain until 1.0.
-
Documentation
-------------
-* Accept patches from people who actually have done CVS
- migration and update the cvs-migration documentation.
- Link the documentation from the main git.txt page.
-
-* Talk about using rsync just once at the beginning when
- initializing a remote repository so that local packs do not
- need to be expanded. I personally do not think we need tool
- support for this (but see below about optimized cloning).
+* Take the updated tutorial by Bruce Fields very seriously. It
+ is a quite good initiative.
-* Maybe update tutorial with a toy project that involves two or
- three developers.
-* Update tutorial to cover setting up repository hooks to do
- common tasks [Mostly done, with Carl's help].
+Design issues
+-------------
-* Do we still have missing docs? If so accept patches to finish
- them.
+* Plug-in file-level merges. On the other hand, we may not even
+ need this; just tell people to run "xxdiff -U" on the working
+ tree files.
-* Accept patches to talk about "Whoops, it broke. What's
- next?" [I think this is done].
+* Doing a merge in a separate directory.
-* Accept patches to make formatted tables in asciidoc to work
- well in both html and man pages (see git-diff(1)) [DONE --
- avoid them ;-)].
+* Subprojects. I think the "bind commit" approach has been
+ outlined at sufficiently detailed level. Maybe find time to
+ actually start prototyping it?
-* Work around multiple synopses lines in manual pages
- (e.g. git-bisect) [DONE -- avoid them ;-)].
+ <7vacdzkww3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Technical (heavier)
* Libification. There are many places "run once" mentality is
ingrained in the management of basic data structures, which
need to be fixed. [Matthias Urlichs is already working on
- this: <pan.2005.10.03.20.48.52.132570@smurf.noris.de>; Post
- 1.0].
+ this: <pan.2005.10.03.20.48.52.132570@smurf.noris.de>]
* Maybe a pack optimizer.
releases.
This needs a matching smart on the dumb protocol downloader.
- [Definitely post 1.0].
* Maybe an Emacs VC backend.
* Look at libified GNU diff CVS seems to use, or libxdiff.
[Daniel has his own diff tool almost ready to start
- integrating and testing; Post 1.0]
-
-* Plug-in file-level merges [Post 1.0]. On the other hand, we
- may not even need this; just tell people to run "xxdiff -U" on
- the working tree files.
-
-* Ref namespace management. Perhaps use refs/local/ suggestion
- by Linus. [Does not seem to be high on people's priority list,
- and not interested myself. People can resurrect this
- discussion if they want.]
+ integrating and testing]
Technical (milder)
------------------
-* strip leading directory from ls-tree output, to match ls-files
- output.
+* Decide what to do about rebase applied to merged head. One
+ extreme is to allow rebase if "rev-list ours..theirs" gives
+ anything. This loosens the current merge-base based approach.
+ The other extreme is to refuse rebase if "rev-list
+ theirs..ours" contains any merge commit, which was discussed
+ on the list.
+
+ <43CC695E.2020506@codeweavers.com>
+
+* Decide what the right thing to do upon an empty merge commit,
+ when both branches happen to have obtained the same set of
+ changes through different history. Not recording such keeps
+ the history simpler, and the next merge would soon create a
+ true merge commit anyway, but does not feel quite right.
+
+ <20060114021800.4688.qmail@web31803.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
- I am of two minds about this one. diff output must always be
- -p1 format no matter where the command was started, and
- ls-tree might be easier to use if it matched diff, not
- ls-files.
+* Perhaps a smarter HTTP anonymous download via CGI.
+
+* Prepare to enable "always use symbolic refs for HEAD" patch.
+ We need a timeline to force Porcelains to get ready. All the
+ major ones should be ready now.
+
+* Prepare to enable "most of the things are installed in
+ GIT_EXEC_PATH not in bindir". I do not plan to set bindir !=
+ gitexecdir myself in the main Makefile I ship, but distos
+ should be able to choose to do so.
+
+* Forbid/ignore pack names that do not conform to the convention
+ sha1_pack_name() assumes and reject in check_packed_git_idx()
+ [In "pu"]
+
+* Any Porcelain-ish we forgot or punted to make usable from
+ subdirectory? I think the last pass caught everything and
+ what are remaining are whole-tree or whole repository
+ operations.
* diff stopping at the first output; qgit wants to know if this
tree has any A or D from the other tree and nothing else.
- Would help internal tree-diff in rev-list as well [can be post
- 1.0].
+ Would help internal tree-diff in rev-list as well.
-* merge-recursive needs to register conflicting paths as higher
- stage entries in the index. For that, it first needs to
- construct three trees whose paths are already renamed, and
- call 3-way read-tree. Alternatively, update-index needs to
- give it a way to construct higher stages [DONE using the
- "alternatively" implementation].
+* daemon --strict-symlink.
-* daemon --strict-symlink [can be post 1.0].
+* daemon --no-user-dir, to make ~user still work with
+ --base-path. They ought to be independent.
-* Binary package split. Plan laid out and discussion mostly
- done. [RPM side done; Debian side thrown over the wall.]
+* daemon --base-path does not apply automatically to whitelist
+ somehow feels wrong. If somebody cares enough, accept
+ patches.
* Perhaps detect cloning request in upload-pack and cache the
result for next cloning request until any of our refs change.
* Perhaps accept patch to optionally allow '--fuzz' in
- 'git-apply'.
+ 'git-apply'. am/applymbox is _not_ the place to do it.
* Allow 'git apply' to accept GNU diff 2.7 output that forgets
to say '\No newline' if both input ends with incomplete
lines.
-* Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well.
+* Perhaps deal with "Files differ" (binary diff) in non C
+ locales.
-* Enhance "git repack" to not always use --all; this would be
- handy if the repository contains wagging heads like "pu" in
- git.git repository.
+* Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well.
* Output full path in the "git-rev-list --objects" output, not
just the basename, and see the improved clustering results in
Technical (trivial)
-------------------
-* We would want test scripts for the relative directory path
- stuff Linus has been working on. Most of the C-level
- commands should be usable with relative directory paths.
+* s/naked/bare/g.
+
+* git-proxy should be spawned with sh -c 'command' $1 $2.
+
+* test scripts for the relative directory path stuff.
-* In a freashly created empty repository, `git fetch foo:bar`
+* In a freshly created empty repository, `git fetch foo:bar`
works OK, but `git checkout bar` afterwards does not (missing
`.git/HEAD`).
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