X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=4135038fb326afa1e3568487ff680b2066e56927;hb=f6cd1a71265b2e022ecddbcbe98d4f6374b6df42;hp=970a1afe99dbb21f825c7632a0b0b6904e95fecc;hpb=679d05fc2c6b203abdc27add03cd520c1f97dff0;p=git.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 970a1afe..4135038f 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -6,145 +6,114 @@ The GIT To-Do File http://kernel.org/git/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;hb=todo;f=TODO -Tool Renames Plan -================= - - - In 0.99.7, all renamed commands have symbolic links in - $(bindir) so that old names continue to work. These backward - compatible names will not appear in documentation. The main - documentation, git(7) will talk about the new names but would - mention their old names as historical notes. Old environment - names defined in gitenv() will also be removed in this release. - - - In 0.99.8, we will 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. - - As a notable exception, 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. Updating to 0.99.8 on one end - of the connection does not requier the other end to update at - the same time. - - The timeframe for this is around Oct 1st. - - -What to expect after 0.99.7 -=========================== +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 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. - -* 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 (but see below about optimized cloning). * Maybe update tutorial with a toy project that involves two or - three developers.. + three developers. -* Document octopus [Linus prodded me again; DONE]. -* Update tutorial to cover setting up repository hooks to do - common tasks. +Design issues +------------- -* Accept patches to finish missing docs. +* 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?". +* 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.] -* Accept patches to make formatted tables in asciidoc to work - well in both html and man pages (see git-diff(1)). +* Perhaps "everything in config file"? Especially remotes/ + shortcuts. I am modestly negative about this. 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. - -* 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. - * Libification. There are many places "run once" mentality is ingrained in the management of basic data structures, which - need to be fixed. + need to be fixed. [Matthias Urlichs is already working on + this: ] * Maybe a pack optimizer. -* Maybe an Emacs VC backend. + 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. -* 'git split-projects'? This requires updated 'git-rev-list' to - skip irrelevant commits. - Message-ID: +* Maybe an Emacs VC backend. -* Look at libified GNU diff CVS seems to use. +* Look at libified GNU diff CVS seems to use, or libxdiff. + [Daniel has his own diff tool almost ready to start + integrating and testing] Technical (milder) ------------------ -* Revisit 'git-merge'. It probably was a mistake to "loop to - choose the best one", since what is best is not ill defined to - begin with. This would make it a lot straightforward to - loosen the tree cleanliness requirements to the acceptable - level. +* send-pack/receive-pack protocol updates, to allow the receiver + to report what it did to the ref update requests. + +* Perhaps a smarter HTTP anonymous download via CGI. -* The recent commit walker safety patch may be too cautious and - appears to take forever when cloning. This may even be - infinitely looping in the code lifted from the old rev-list -- - needs to be taken a look at [DONE -- and redone very nicely by - Sergey]. +* Prepare to enable "always use symbolic refs for HEAD" patch. + We need a timeline to force Porcelains to get ready. Last + time I looked at them I got an impression that gitweb was not + ready. -* Encourage concrete proposals to commit log message templates - we discussed some time ago. +* Forbid/ignore pack names that do not conform to the convention + sha1_pack_name() assumes and reject in check_packed_git_idx() + [In pu] -* Accept patches for more portability. +* strip leading directory from ls-tree output, to match ls-files + output. - * strcasestr() in mailinfo. We may need compat/strcasestr.c; - this is bugging OpenBSD folks [DONE, thanks to Linus and - others]. + 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. - * Solaris portability [ONGOING, thanks to Patrick Mauritz, - Peter Eriksen and Sean from sympatico]. + [We should not do this, or do this carefully, if we were to + merge the "git-checkout (--|) work from + subdirectory" patch.] -* Accept patches to cause "read-tree -u" delete a directory when - it makes it empty. +* 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. -* Perhaps accept patches to introduce the concept of "patch flow - expressed as ref mappings" Josef has been advocating about. +* 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 accept patches to do undo/redo. +* daemon --strict-symlink. + +* 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'. @@ -153,91 +122,30 @@ Technical (milder) to say '\No newline' if both input ends with incomplete lines. -* 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. +* Perhaps deal with "Files differ" (binary diff) in non C + locales. -* 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. - -* 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. +* 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]. -* Remove obsolete commands [DONE]. - -* Option to limit rename detection for more than N paths [READY]. - -* Option to show only status and name from diff [READY]. - -* What to name the 'master' version between 0.99.7 and 0.99.8 - and still not break binary distribution folks? 0.99.7z? - Technical (trivial) ------------------- -* show-branch naming heads is buggy. +* Versioning scheme. The next maintenance installment will be + 1.0.3 not 1.0.0c. The next feature release would be 1.1.0. - git show-branch --more=2 - ! [linus] Input: check switch bitmap when matching handlers - * [master] Input: check switch bitmap when matching handlers - -- - ++ [linus] Input: check switch bitmap when matching handlers - ++ [linus~1] Merge branch 'upstream' from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev - ++ [linus^2] Merge /spare/repo/linux-2.6/ - - The last one should be linus~2 or something; linus head does - not have three parents! - -* Stop installing the old-name symlinks. - -* 'git add --recursive' [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-<.] - - 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/). +* Either drop supporting Debian myself or coerce patches out of + the official maintainer. * 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` + stuff Linus has been working on. Most of the C-level + commands should be usable with relative directory paths. + +* In a freshly created empty repository, `git fetch foo:bar` works OK, but `git checkout bar` afterwards does not (missing `.git/HEAD`).