X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=62020893988b141c4a4088c109fa65898812e13d;hb=52dd75885cd3a78dcb3d7f4f0ddf16f4b8f62b56;hp=77944484125f55faf390a0cb9f65f9a6ec305bc3;hpb=04e9d4814fe43550dd000b48dc2ec129c9d32791;p=git.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 77944484..62020893 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,10 +1,22 @@ -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 + + +What to expect until 1.0 +======================== 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 ;-). + +Only handful things remain until 1.0. Documentation @@ -14,144 +26,120 @@ Documentation migration and update the cvs-migration documentation. Link the documentation from the main git.txt page. -* Link howto docs from the git.txt page. [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]. Accept patches from - people who were hit by shiny blue bat to update the same. - * 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. [IN PROGRESS] + common tasks. -* Get help to properly use asciidoc in tutorial. +* Do we still have missing docs? If so accept patches to finish + them. -* Maybe justify and demonstrate an Octopus in the tutorial. Add - it to the glossary. +* Accept patches to talk about "Whoops, it broke. What's + next?" [ONGOING]. +* Accept patches to make formatted tables in asciidoc to work + well in both html and man pages (see git-diff(1)). -Technical (heavier) -------------------- +* Work around multiple synopses lines in manual pages + (e.g. git-bisect). -* 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. - [Underway. Thanks Daniel and Fredrik for taking an - initiative.] -* 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. +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: ; Post + 1.0]. -Technical (milder) ------------------- +* Maybe a pack optimizer. -* 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] + 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. - 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] + This needs a matching smart on the dumb protocol downloader. -* "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 - waiting for response] +* Maybe an Emacs VC backend. -* Encourage concrete proposals to commit log message templates - we discussed some time ago. +* 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] -* Bug Ryan and work with him to update send-email easier to use. - [Resurrected it for Debian build.] +* 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. -* Look at portability fixes from Jason Riedy +* 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.] - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ejr/gits/git.git#portable - [Looked at it. Maybe promising. Maybe not. I am not sure - what the goals are. Need to respond to Jason.] +Technical (milder) +------------------ -* Accept patches to cause "read-tree -u" delete a directory when - it makes it empty. +* strip leading directory from ls-tree output. -* 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 [can be post + 1.0]. -* Perhaps accept patches to do undo/redo. +* 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 [can be post 1.0, but + nicer to have in 1.0]. -* MIMEified applymbox to grok B and Q encodings in headers and - turn them into UTF-8; unwrap QP; explode multipart. [IN PROGRESS] +* daemon --strict-symlink [can be post 1.0]. -* "git cherry-pick" that applies the patch an existing commit - introduces in its ancestry chain, possibly using the 3-way - merge machinery. [Done. Needs documentation.] +* Binary package split. Plan laid out and discussion mostly + done. [RPM side done; Debian side thrown over the wall.] -* Update rebase using the cherry-pick command. [Done] +* Perhaps detect cloning request in upload-pack and cache the + result for next cloning request until any of our refs change. -* Redo "git revert" using 3-way merge machinery. [Done] +* Perhaps accept patch to optionally allow '--fuzz' in + 'git-apply'. -* A tool to detect, show and prune already merged topic - branches. +* Allow 'git apply' to accept GNU diff 2.7 output that forgets + to say '\No newline' if both input ends with incomplete + lines. -* Set up an automated documentation rebuilding procedure at - kernel.org, using update hook mechanism. [Almost, but not - quite.] Describe it in a howto form [Done]. +* Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well. * 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. - -* 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. - -* Add names to all nodes in show-branch. - -* Option to limit rename detection for more than N paths. +* 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) ------------------- -* Look at and merge Debian fixes from Tommi [Done]. - -* Perhaps "git branch -d" to delete a branch. - -* Remove "git clone-dumb-http". - * 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-cache - ls-files - diff-files - diff-cache - diff-tree - rev-list + stuff Linus has been working on. Most of the C-level + commands should be usable with relative directory paths. + +* In a freashly created empty repository, `git fetch foo:bar` + works OK, but `git checkout bar` afterwards does not (missing + `.git/HEAD`). Local Variables: