X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=6dc00280a42c4825d5c2b7b8979b7c552c78b1eb;hb=ba776ae4b85b10c278c618cada2b0caa1c50ad03;hp=919ee3a13bc7810cc0931141f3a328d6621a3913;hpb=bd8b47db1a26557181fe4e807dd282b96863b3e6;p=git.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 919ee3a1..6dc00280 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -17,45 +17,30 @@ if ever -- only if somebody cares enough and submits a clean patch, perhaps ;-). -Documentation -------------- - -* 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). +UI +-- -* Maybe update tutorial with a toy project that involves two or - three developers. +* Make "git branch -d foo" while on foo branch suggest "maybe + you want to go back to 'master'?" Design issues ------------- +* tree entries in index? + +* "intent to add" index entries? + * 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. -* 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.] - -* Perhaps "everything in config file"? Especially remotes/ - shortcuts. I am modestly negative about this. - -* Perhaps "setting umask from git_config()"? I am modestly - negative about this. +* Doing a merge in a separate directory? 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: ] - * Maybe a pack optimizer. Given a set of objects and a set of refs (probably a handful @@ -68,34 +53,39 @@ Technical (heavier) This needs a matching smart on the dumb protocol downloader. -* 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] +* 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: ] Technical (milder) ------------------ -* send-pack/receive-pack protocol updates, to allow the receiver - to report what it did to the ref update requests. +* Shallow clones. + +* Encourage competition between annotate vs blame. Maybe come + up with some nontrivial test cases. + +* Subprojects. Try "gitlink". -* Perhaps a smarter HTTP anonymous download via CGI. -* Prepare to enable "always use symbolic refs for HEAD" patch. - We need a timeline to force Porcelains to get ready. +* Decide what to do about rebase applied to merged head. One + extreme is to allow rebase if "rev-list ours..theirs" gives + anything. This loosens the current merge-base based approach. + The other extreme is to refuse rebase if "rev-list + theirs..ours" contains any merge commit, which was discussed + on the list. -* Forbid/ignore pack names that do not conform to the convention - sha1_pack_name() assumes and reject in check_packed_git_idx(). + <43CC695E.2020506@codeweavers.com> -* strip leading directory from ls-tree output, to match ls-files - output. +* Decide what the right thing to do upon an empty merge commit, + when both branches happen to have obtained the same set of + changes through different history. Not recording such keeps + the history simpler, and the next merge would soon create a + true merge commit anyway, but this does not feel quite right. - 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. + <20060114021800.4688.qmail@web31803.mail.mud.yahoo.com> * 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. @@ -103,40 +93,24 @@ Technical (milder) * daemon --strict-symlink. +* daemon --base-path does not apply automatically to whitelist + somehow feels wrong. If somebody cares enough, accept + patches. + * 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'. - -* 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) ------------------- -* Versioning scheme. The next maintenance installment will be - 1.0.3 not 1.0.0c. The next feature release would be 1.1.0. - -* Either drop supporting Debian myself or coerce patches out of - the official maintainer. +* git-proxy should be spawned with sh -c 'command' $1 $2. -* We would want test scripts for the relative directory path - stuff Linus has been working on. Most of the C-level - commands should be usable with relative directory paths. +* test scripts for the relative directory path stuff. -* In a freashly created empty repository, `git fetch foo:bar` +* In a freshly created empty repository, `git fetch foo:bar` works OK, but `git checkout bar` afterwards does not (missing `.git/HEAD`).