-What to expect after 0.99.5
+What to expect after 0.99.6
===========================
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
myself. People interested in seeing it materialize please take
-a hint.
+a hint. The latest copy of this document is found at
+
+ http://kernel.org/git/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;hb=todo;f=TODO
+
+Tool Renames Plan
+-----------------
+
+ - All non-binary commands will lose -script suffix in
+ $(bindir). The source to git-foo will be either git-foo.sh
+ or git-foo.perl in the source tree, and the documentation
+ will be in Documentation/git-foo.txt.
+
+ - The commands whose names have 'cache' to mean 'index file'
+ will get 'cache' in their names replaced with 'index'. For
+ git-fsck-cache and git-convert-cache, 'cache' will be
+ replaced with 'objects'.
+
+ - The commit walkers will have 'pull' in their names replaced
+ with 'fetch'. 'git-ssh-push' will become 'git-ssh-upload'.
+
+ - We continue to follow the convention to name the C source
+ file that contains the main program of 'git-foo' command
+ 'foo.c'. That means we will have 'fsck-objects.c', for
+ example.
+
+ - At this moment, I am not planning to rename the symbols used
+ in programs, nor any library sources. "cache.h" will stay
+ "cache.h", so does "read-cache.c". "struct cache_entry" and
+ "ce_match_stat()" will keep their names. We _might_ want to
+ rename them in later rounds but not right now.
+
+ - In 0.99.7, all renamed commands will have symbolic links in
+ $(bindir) so that old names continue to work. These backward
+ compatible symlinks will not be present in documentation,
+ though. Especially, the main documentation, git(7) will talk
+ about the new names. Old environment names defined in
+ gitenv() will also be removed in this release.
+
+ Tentatively we aim to do this on Sep 17th.
+
+ - In 0.99.8, we do not install these backward compatible
+ symbolic links in $(bindir) anymore. The Makefile will have
+ a target to remove old symlinks from $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) you
+ can run manually to help you clean things up.
+
+ The timeframe for this is around Oct 1st, but I could be
+ talked into delaying the symlink removal if Porcelain people
+ find this schedule too tight.
Documentation
migration and update the cvs-migration documentation.
Link the documentation from the main git.txt page.
-* Update the SubmittingPatches document to add MUA specific
- hints on how to disable unwanted MIME and flowed-text by
- collecting past list postings. Accept patches from people who
- was hit by shiny blue bat to update the same.
+* Accept patches from people who were hit by shiny blue bat to
+ update the SubmittingPatches.
* 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.
+ support for this (but see below about optimized cloning).
-* Update tutorial to cover shared repository style a bit more,
- maybe with a toy project that involves two or three
- repositories.
+* 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.
-* Get help to properly use asciidoc in tutorial.
-
-* Maybe justify and demonstrate an Octopus in the tutorial. Add
- it to the glossary.
+* Accept patches to finish missing docs.
Technical (heavier)
* Tony Luck reported an unfortunate glitch in the 3-way merge.
Encourage discussions to come up with a not-so-expensive way
to catch the kind of ambiguities that led to his misery.
+ [Deathmatch between Daniel's and Fredrik's ongoing.]
+
+* HPA has two projects, klibc and klibc-kbuild, that have large
+ set of overlapping files in different paths (i.e. one has many
+ renames from the other). There currently is no way for git to
+ help keep these two trees in sync, merging criss-cross between
+ them. The merge logic should be able to take advantage of
+ rename/copy detection smarts git-diff-* family has. Linus,
+ me, and Daniel outlined a smarter merge strategy for this.
+ Try them out.
+
+* To make it easier to experiment with different merge
+ strategies, make git-merge driver that will run merge backends
+ for the best merge [DONE].
+
+* 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.
+
+* Maybe a pack optimizer.
+
+* Maybe an Emacs VC backend.
Technical (milder)
------------------
-* When the branch head pointed by $GIT_DIR/HEAD changes while
- the index file and working tree are looking the other way
- (e.g. somebody pushed into your repository, or you ran "git
- fetch" to update the ref your working tree is on), "git
- checkout" without -f gets confused. Figure out a good way to
- handle this.
+* Define semantics for relative pathnames in objects/info/alternates.
+ Either relative to 'objects', or relative to the top of project tree
+ ;the latter is consistent with GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES.
+ Perhaps would end up doing the former because we would want to be
+ consistent between a naked repository and a repository with working
+ tree [DONE].
+
+* Tool renames. Give fixup patch for at least Cogito and StGIT
+ [DONE].
+
+* Have Daniel's read-tree graduate from "pu" after plugging
+ leaks [DONE].
+
+* Implement a merge backend using Daniel's read-tree [DONE].
-* "git commit -m" should work for initial commits and perhaps
- merge commits as well. Warning about merge is still a good
- thing to do, while -m is useful in scripted non-interactive
- use, so we need to be careful.
+* Rename 'git-merge-resolve' to 'git-merge-stupid' and
+ 'git-merge-multibase' to 'git-merge-resolve'; the former is
+ for historical curiosity and comparison purposes only and not
+ to be used in real applications so remove it from the default
+ strategies list [DONE].
+
+* Accept Fredrik merge after renaming it (I want to name the
+ driver 'git merge'). Suggest where to place *.py stuff --
+ probably in $(share)/git-core/ and add Makefile entry for
+ installation [DONE].
* Encourage concrete proposals to commit log message templates
we discussed some time ago.
-* Bug Ryan and work with him to update send-email easier to use.
-
-* Look at portability fixes from Jason Riedy
+* Bug Martin for archimport script documentation [DONE].
- http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ejr/gits/git.git#portable
+* More portability [IN PROGRESS].
* Accept patches to cause "read-tree -u" delete a directory when
it makes it empty.
* Perhaps accept patches to introduce the concept of "patch flow
expressed as ref mappings" Josef has been advocating about.
-* MIMEified applymbox to grok B and Q encodings in headers and
- turn them into UTF-8; unwrap QP; explode multipart.
+* Perhaps accept patches to do undo/redo.
+
+* Perhaps accept patch to optionally allow '--fuzz' in
+ 'git-apply'.
-* "git cherry-pick" that applies the patch an existing commit
- introduces in its ancestry chain, possibly using the 3-way
- merge machinery; update rebase using the cherry-pick command.
- Carl's redo/undo might fall out naturally from this.
+* Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well.
+
+* Perhaps a tool to revert a single file to pre-modification
+ state? git-cat-file blob `git-ls-files | grep foo` >foo or
+ git-cat-file blob `git-ls-tree HEAD foo` >foo? What should
+ the command be called? git-revert is taken so is
+ git-checkout.
* A tool to detect, show and prune already merged topic
branches.
-* Perhaps "git branch -d" to delete a branch.
+* "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.
+
+ Do not name it /lost+found/; that would probably confuse
+ things that mistake it a mount point (not our code but
+ somebody else's).
* Enhance "git repack" to not always use --all; this would be
handy if the repository contains wagging heads like "pu" in
git.git repository.
-* Remove "git clone-dumb-http".
+* 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.
+
+* Option to limit rename detection for more than N paths.
+
+* Marking copy seems to be broken when A,B => B,C rename
+ happens; we incorrectly say B stays, which makes the new B
+ copy of old A, not rename [DONE].
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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)
+-------------------
+
+* Deal with CDPATH [DONE].
+
+* Teach 'git format-patch' about 'git cherry' [DONE].
+
+* Make 'git bisect' easier to use by logging the earlier
+ good/bad choices and make it replayable [DONE].
+
+* Perhaps "git branch -d" to delete a branch. We probably need
+ some way to say "delete this branch because everything in this
+ should be merged in the master branch" and refuse the removal
+ if it is not true.
+
+* We would want test scripts for the relative directory path
+ stuff Linus has been working on. So far, the following
+ commands should be usable with relative directory paths:
+
+ git-update-index
+ git-ls-files
+ git-diff-files
+ git-diff-index
+ git-diff-tree
+ git-rev-list
+ git-rev-parse
+
+* In a freashly created empty repository, `git fetch foo:bar`
+ works OK, but `git checkout bar` afterwards does not (missing
+ `.git/HEAD`).
+
+\f
+Local Variables:
+mode: text
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