patch, perhaps ;-).
-Documentation
--------------
-
-* No pending issues at the moment. "Revamp Tutorial" initiative
- by Bruce Fields ongoing and things are looking better.
-
-
-UI
---
-
-* Make "git branch -d foo" while on foo branch suggest "maybe
- you want to go back to 'master'?"
-
-* Error message from "git checkout -b bar v2.6.10" should assume
- v2.6.10 is an attempt to switch to a new branch based on
- mistyped tag, not an attempt to revert path v2.6.10 from the
- HEAD commit with extra "make and switch to this branch"
- argument.
-
-* "git commit [-i|-o] paths..." with misspelled paths would be
- silently ignored. Add a flag to ls-files to catch unmatched
- pathspec to prevent this.
-
-
Design issues
-------------
-* Rehash "git commit" with various parameters to be more
- intuitive without breaking traditinal users too much. We need
- to phase this in, especially if we are going to change "git
- commit" to imply the current "git commit -a" behaviour.
+* tree entries in index? -- sorry, stalled
-* "intent to add" index entries.
+* "intent to add" index entries? -- together with the above
+ needs rethinking.
* 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.
-
-* Doing a merge in a separate directory.
-
-* Make 'format-patch' take revision limiters similar to
- rev-list. For example:
-
- A C
- ....---x---o---o---x---o---o
- /
- /
- /
- ....---x---o---o
- B
-
- we should be able to format commits 'o', without duplicates,
- by:
-
- $ git format-patch ^A ^B C
-
- Currently the closest approximation is
-
- $ git format-patch A..C B..C
-
- which results in the last two commits including C formatted
- twice.
+ tree files (or kompare).
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>]
-
-* Maybe a pack optimizer.
-
- Given a set of objects and a set of refs (probably a handful
- branch heads and point release tags), find a set of packs to
- allow reasonably minimum download for all of these classes of
- people: (1) somebody cloning the repository from scratch, (2)
- somebody who tends to follow the master branch head reasonably
- closely, (3) somebody who tends to follow only the point
- releases.
-
- This needs a matching smart on the dumb protocol downloader.
+ need to be fixed. [Matthias Urlichs was already working on
+ this: <pan.2005.10.03.20.48.52.132570@smurf.noris.de>, but I
+ do not know what happened to his efforts]
-* 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]
+* Lazy clones that can be controlled by the user, ranging from
+ totally on-demand a la CVS/SVN to "cache down to this old
+ commit so that I can make full use of git on at least recent
+ history". This need a lot of work in making tools to exit
+ gracefully when they hit unavailable objects while offline.
Technical (milder)
------------------
-* "git status -v" to give commit preview.
-
-* Subprojects. I think the "bind commit" approach has been
- outlined at sufficiently detailed level. Maybe find time to
- actually start prototyping it?
-
- <7vacdzkww3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
-
-* Shallow clones.
+* git grep should be able to omit prefix when invoked from a
+ subdirectory. Either make it an option or default with
+ --full-name like ls-files does.
-* Mark entries as "assume unchanged" in the index.
+* duplicated refspec given to "fetch-pack a a a" makes it emit
+ strange error message because it triggers the "match only
+ once" logic. Maybe strip the dups on the input side
+ (Uwe Zeisberger
+ <20060608073857.GA5072@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>).
- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601311807470.7301@g5.osdl.org>
+* map only parts of huge packfiles and LRU fragments of them.
+ People are starting to try git on projects with deep history
+ and/or many objects, e.g. Mozilla.
- A config item '[core] trust_stat = false' would cause to:
+* upload-pack support for start fetching from any valid point on
+ the history, not just published refs. (Erik W. Biederman
+ <m164jc9ekx.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>)
- - "update-index" with or without --add would mark the path
- valid after registering. Should we make the working tree
- file read-only at this point?
+* git-daemon side support for virtual hosting. Client side
+ is ready in 1.4.0 (Jon Loeliger <1149610100.23938.75.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com>).
- - checkout-index -u would mark the path and makes the working
- tree file read-only.
+* teach git-upload-pack not to ack-continue early when the
+ client has roots it does not know about but it already has
+ learned the fork points for all the requested heads
+ (Ralf Baechle <20060524131022.GA11449@linux-mips.org>).
- - read-tree without -u would mark the path invalid.
+* Per user .gitconfig across repositories -- ongoing.
- - update-index --refresh should *not* mark up-to-date paths valid.
+* Encourage competition between annotate vs blame. Maybe come
+ up with some nontrivial test cases.
- Impacts to various commands:
+* Subprojects. Try "gitlink" -- sorry, stalled.
- - update-index --refresh would ignore them.
-
- - diff-files would say unchanged.
-
- - diff-index without --cached acts the same way as diff-index
- --cached.
+* Rebase and checkout -m should be able to use recursive
+ strategy as well. These commands currently do not work across
+ renames.
* Decide what to do about rebase applied to merged head. One
extreme is to allow rebase if "rev-list ours..theirs" gives
<20060114021800.4688.qmail@web31803.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
-* Perhaps a smarter HTTP anonymous download via CGI.
-
* 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.
* 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'. 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.
-
-* Perhaps deal with "Files differ" (binary diff) in non C
- locales.
-
* 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
- better packing [Tried, but did not work out well].
-
Technical (trivial)
-------------------
* git-proxy should be spawned with sh -c 'command' $1 $2.
+* Maybe a true git-proxy command that reads the first request
+ pkt-line, and redirects the request to its real destination.
+
* test scripts for the relative directory path stuff.
* In a freshly created empty repository, `git fetch foo:bar`