X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=7ff028561348443a4e675f918337ccaa4c9fa018;hb=06faa52353397201f6e4543d14f2a27ae1baa9af;hp=73a4cf356e40e60daf371ae880b5d074cd4aed01;hpb=fd2b323def3ad40b0e85105321d06bad3ff36d58;p=git.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 73a4cf35..7ff02856 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ The GIT To-Do File Tool Renames Plan ================= - - In 0.99.8, we will still install the backward compatible - symbolic links in $(bindir). These will however be removed - before 1.0 happens. + - In 0.99.8, we still install the backward compatible symbolic + links in $(bindir). These will however be removed before 1.0 + happens. git-ssh-push and git-ssh-pull pair is not going away within this timeframe, if ever. Each of these old-name commands @@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ patch, perhaps ;-). Documentation ------------- +* Document the ref naming restrictions [DONE]. + +* David Ho's report suggests whatchanged documentation should + mention -m as "commonly used options". Steal Linus' + response [DONE]. + * Help Jon Loeliger to find place in the documentation to place his drawing. @@ -51,7 +57,8 @@ Documentation * Update tutorial to cover setting up repository hooks to do common tasks. -* Accept patches to finish missing docs. +* Do we still have missing docs? If so accept patches to finish + them. * Accept patches to talk about "Whoops, it broke. What's next?". @@ -68,7 +75,8 @@ Technical (heavier) 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. + 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 @@ -105,43 +113,64 @@ Technical (heavier) integrating and testing; Post 1.0] * Accept patches to fetch multiple objects by HTTP in parallel. - [Preferably before 1.0] + [DONE] * Plug-in file-level merges [Post 1.0]. +* Per-repository configuration mechanism [DONE by Linus]. + Technical (milder) ------------------ +* Merlyn reports trouble with http fetch. + +* 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. + +* Perhaps detect cloning request in upload-pack and cache the + result for next cloning request until any of our refs change. + +* Perhaps accept more "want"s in upload-pack and do something + intelligent about it. + +* Perhaps send less "want"s from fetch-pack. + +* Look at svn importer Smurf has. There is a small cvsimport + update in his tree as well [DONE]. + +* 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] + +* Quote the URL so that libcurl's metecharacter mechanism would + not kick in [DONE]. + * Review the Makefile variables and exporting rules for them, - while looking at prefix passing by Kai Ruemmler. + while looking at prefix passing by Kai Ruemmler [DONE]. -* Review the 'sparce object database' change by Linus and move - the first phase of it to the "master" branch. +* Review the 'sparse object database' change by Linus and move + the first phase of it to the "master" branch [DONE]. * Decide on mmap(). I am inclined to just stick to mmap replacement by Johannes Schindelin and do nothing else right - now. + now, except perhaps drop the writing-back support [DONE]. * Revisit Santi's patch to move commit temorary files out of the - working tree toplevel. More generally, review the use of - temporary files again. Assuming $GIT_DIR is writable is - more acceptable, but the working tree toplevel may not be in - a rare usage pattern. + working tree toplevel [DONE]. -* Perhaps accept more "want"s in upload-pack and do something - intelligent about it. - -* Perhaps detect cloning request in upload-pack and cache the - result for next cloning request until any of our refs change. - -* Perhaps send less "want"s from fetch-pack. +* 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. * Encourage concrete proposals to commit log message templates we discussed some time ago. * Accept patches to cause "read-tree -u" delete a directory when - it makes it empty. + it makes it empty [DONE]. * Perhaps accept patches to do undo/redo. @@ -153,7 +182,12 @@ Technical (milder) lines. * What to do with TABs and LFs in pathnames without breaking GNU - patch? + patch? [DONE -- go with GNU patch extension proposed by Paul]. + +* Adjust apply.c to proposed GNU patch extension that quotes \n + and \t in C style, inside "". [DONE] + +* Adjust diff.c to the same. [DONE] * Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well. @@ -161,7 +195,7 @@ Technical (milder) 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. + 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 @@ -181,7 +215,7 @@ Technical (milder) * 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. + left off [mechanism mostly done]. * Output full path in the "git-rev-list --objects" output, not just the basename, and see the improved clustering results in @@ -189,12 +223,40 @@ Technical (milder) * 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 soon enough]. + is what he needs hopefully soon]. + +* An mechanism to ignore filesystem mode bits altogether [DONE]. Technical (trivial) ------------------- +* Peter Hagervall's sparse fix [DONE]. + +* Alex Riesen reported that hooks are in effect in tests. + Should fix [DONE]. + +* 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]. + +* 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) [READY]. + +* Perhaps show ^{commit}, ^{tree} instead of ^{} from ls-remote? + +* Re-adjust maint branch for the above if we did so. + * short SHA1 naming is not enforcing uniqueness. Should fix [DONE]. * 'git repack' can be DOSed. Should fix [DONE].