X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=15ecb597dbf474058a7071c7db75aa0010941ae9;hb=c3b9ed08caf84bca24902b3b2750ad61e411da98;hp=396248f394e83b2b97db71cd48227031b4f9b5fe;hpb=4406b76d55990c6f531af1f8f8c62f4c82b0b9f1;p=git.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 396248f3..15ecb597 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,213 +1,292 @@ -What to expect after 0.99.5 +The GIT To-Do File +================== + + 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 +================= + + - In 0.99.9, the backward compatible symbolic links in + $(bindir) will be removed. + + 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. + + +What to expect after 0.99.8 =========================== 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. Also whatever I marked "Perhaps" do not have to happen +if ever -- only if somebody cares enough and submits a clean +patch, perhaps ;-). 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. +* Document the ref naming restrictions [DONE]. -* Link howto docs from the git.txt page. [DONE] +* David Ho's report suggests whatchanged documentation should + mention -m as "commonly used options". Steal Linus' + response [DONE]. -* Update the SubmittingPatches document to add MUA specific - hints on how to disable unwanted MIME and flowed-text by - collecting past list postings [DONE]. +* Help Jon Loeliger to find place in the documentation to place + his drawing. -* Accept patches from people who were hit by shiny blue bat to - update the SubmittingPatches [ONGOING]. +* 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). - -* Review the existing docs and see if the repository - organization needs to be clarified further [DONE]. - -* Update tutorial to cover shared repository style a bit more - [DONE]. + support for this (but see below about optimized cloning). * Maybe update tutorial with a toy project that involves two or three developers.. -* Document the hooks [DONE]. - * Update tutorial to cover setting up repository hooks to do common tasks. -* Get help to properly use asciidoc in tutorial [Heck, ended up - learning it myself, DONE]. +* Do we still have missing docs? If so accept patches to finish + them. -* Maybe justify and demonstrate an Octopus in the tutorial - [STILL NEEDSWORK]. +* Accept patches to talk about "Whoops, it broke. What's + next?". -* Add Octopus to the glossary [Thanks Johannes, DONE]. +* Accept patches to make formatted tables in asciidoc to work + well in both html and man pages (see git-diff(1)). 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. - [STARTED TESTING PATCH FROM DANIEL] - -* 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. - * 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. I am not convinced that packing all - objects into a single pack and removing all the existing panck - is the right way to go, since that would work against people - who already have those packs. + different from each other. [DONE; git-index-pack by Sergey, + tweaking clone by me] + +* Git daemon, when deployed at kernel.org, might turn out to be + quite a burden, since it needs to generate customized packs + every time a new request comes in. It may be worthwhile to + 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 [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 + need to be fixed. [Matthias Urlichs is already working on + this: ; Post + 1.0]. + +* 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. * Maybe an Emacs VC backend. +* 'git split-projects'? This requires updated 'git-rev-list' to + skip irrelevant commits. + Message-ID: + +* 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] + +* Accept patches to fetch multiple objects by HTTP in parallel. + [DONE] + +* Plug-in file-level merges [Post 1.0]. + +* Per-repository configuration mechanism [DONE by Linus]. + 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. [DONE] +* Merlyn reports trouble with http fetch [Hopefully solved by + Nick's updates]. -* We still have the same issue with "git fetch". Fetching into - the branch one is on _may_ need to do the same thing as - fetching into anonymous head and then do the resolve. At - least it needs a warning. [DONE] +* Maybe look at Cogito and see if I can help Pasky to adjust to + the later core features? Zack Brown's "cg-seek leaving empty + directories" problem is a good example of this. -* "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. [DONE] +* Perhaps detect cloning request in upload-pack and cache the + result for next cloning request until any of our refs change. -* Encourage concrete proposals to commit log message templates - we discussed some time ago. +* Perhaps accept more "want"s in upload-pack and do something + intelligent about it [Ongoing, by Johannes]. -* Test apply.c patches from Robert Fitzsmons and have them - graduate to "master" branch [IN PROGRESS]. +* Perhaps send less "want"s from fetch-pack [DONE by JS]. -* Test read-tree reorganization patches from Daniel and have - them graduate to "master" branch [TESTED]. +* Look at svn importer Smurf has. There is a small cvsimport + update in his tree as well [DONE]. -* Bug Ryan and work with him to update send-email easier to use. - [Resurrected it for Debian build.] +* Decide the notation of "peeling the onion" operator, and + implement it in sha1_name.c. Perhaps postfix "^{}" to mean + "peel and expect anything", "^{blob}" to mean "peel and barf + unless blob". The current "^0" becomes shorthand for + "^{commit}". [DONE] -* Look at portability fixes from Jason Riedy +* Quote the URL so that libcurl's metecharacter mechanism would + not kick in [DONE]. - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ejr/gits/git.git#portable +* Review the Makefile variables and exporting rules for them, + while looking at prefix passing by Kai Ruemmler [DONE]. - [Applied. Burned by one of them and backed out, but otherwise - looks OK.] +* Review the 'sparse object database' change by Linus and move + the first phase of it to the "master" branch [DONE]. -* Accept patches to cause "read-tree -u" delete a directory when - it makes it empty. +* 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]. -* Perhaps accept patches to introduce the concept of "patch flow - expressed as ref mappings" Josef has been advocating about. +* Revisit Santi's patch to move commit temorary files out of the + working tree toplevel [DONE]. -* Perhaps accept patches to do undo/redo. +* 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. -* MIMEified applymbox to grok B and Q encodings in headers and - turn them into UTF-8; unwrap QP; explode multipart. - [DONE. waiting for a bug to happen ;-) ] +* Encourage concrete proposals to commit log message templates + we discussed some time ago. -* Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well. +* Accept patches to cause "read-tree -u" delete a directory when + it makes it empty [DONE]. -* 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. +* 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. [DONE] +* Allow 'git apply' to accept GNU diff 2.7 output that forgets + to say '\No newline' if both input ends with incomplete + lines. -* Update rebase using the cherry-pick command. [DONE] +* What to do with TABs and LFs in pathnames without breaking GNU + patch? [DONE -- go with GNU patch extension proposed by Paul]. -* Redo "git revert" using 3-way merge machinery. [DONE] +* Adjust apply.c to proposed GNU patch extension that quotes \n + and \t in C style, inside "". [DONE] -* A tool to detect, show and prune already merged topic - branches. +* Adjust diff.c to the same. [DONE] -* Set up an automated documentation rebuilding procedure at - kernel.org, using update hook mechanism. [DONE] +* Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well. -* Describe automated documentation rebuilding in a howto form - [DONE]. +* 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 [DONE with a prodding by Linus]. * Enhance "git repack" to not always use --all; this would be handy if the repository contains wagging heads like "pu" in git.git repository. -* Accept and apply "git repack --all" patch, except the part - that removes the existing packs. [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 [mechanism mostly done]. -* 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. +* 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]. -* Add names to all nodes in show-branch [DONE]. +* 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 hopefully soon]. -* Option to limit rename detection for more than N paths. +* An mechanism to ignore filesystem mode bits altogether [DONE]. Technical (trivial) ------------------- -* Look at and merge Debian fixes from Tommi [Done]. +* Peter Hagervall's sparse fix [DONE]. -* Perhaps "git branch -d" to delete a branch. +* Alex Riesen reported that hooks are in effect in tests. + Should fix [DONE]. -* Remove "git clone-dumb-http". +* Disallow [\001-\040\177] byte values from ref names. Also we + need to disallow ':' (used in refspec), '^' and '~' (postfix + "peel the onion" operators), and '..' ("ref1..ref2" notation + becomes ambiguous otherwise) [DONE]. -* 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: +* Update fetch-pack and clone-pack to ignore funny refs from the + other end, while making sure peek-remote does not discard them. + [DONE] + +* Update upload-pack to send tag^{}. This would hopefully help + Pasky's automated tag tracking, and also Martin's findtags. + [DONE] + +* Adjust update-index to quoted --index-info [DONE]. + +* Prepare apply.c changes for maint branch (0.99.8e) [DONE]. + +* Perhaps show ^{commit}, ^{tree} instead of ^{} from ls-remote? [NO] + +* Re-adjust maint branch for the above if we did so. [NOT NEEDED] + +* short SHA1 naming is not enforcing uniqueness. Should fix [DONE]. - update-cache - ls-files - diff-files - diff-cache - diff-tree - rev-list +* 'git repack' can be DOSed. Should fix [DONE]. +* Stop installing the old-name symlinks [IN 0.99.9]. -Initial repository Gotchas --------------------------- +* 'git merge-projects'? -* `git fetch foo:bar` works OK, but `git checkout bar` - afterwards does not (missing `.git/HEAD`) - -* `git commit -s` did not add signoff for initial commit [DONE]. + Subject: Re: Merges without bases + References: <1125004228.4110.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> + Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:26:36 -0700 + Message-ID: <7vvf1tps9v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> -* `git status` does not work well when missing `.git/HEAD` [DONE]. +* '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-<.] + + Do not name it /lost+found/; that would probably confuse + things that mistake it a mount point (not our code but + somebody else's). + +* Add simple globbing rules to git-show-branch so that I can + say 'git show-branch --heads "ko-*"' (ko-master, ko-pu, and + ko-rc are in refs/tags/). + +* 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 log` either; git-log-script uses die which does not exist - [DONE]. + 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`). Local Variables: