From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 07:41:59 +0000 (-0800) Subject: As of 1.0rc4 X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=52dd75885cd3a78dcb3d7f4f0ddf16f4b8f62b56;p=git.git As of 1.0rc4 Revamp TODO list and stop HAVEDONE (does not make sense to list everything since 0.99). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/HAVEDONE b/HAVEDONE deleted file mode 100644 index 459dbae3..00000000 --- a/HAVEDONE +++ /dev/null @@ -1,96 +0,0 @@ -Done in 0.99.9 -============== - -Ports -~~~~~ - -* Cygwin port [HPA]. - -* OpenBSD build [Merlyn and others]. - - -Fixes -~~~~~ - -* clone request over git native protocol from a repository with - too many refs did not work; this has been fixed. - -* git-daemon got safer for kernel.org use [HPA]. - -* Extended SHA1 parser was not enforcing uniqueness for - abbreviated SHA1; this has been fixed. - -* http transport does not barf on funny characters in URL. - -* The ref naming restrictions have been formalized and the - coreish refuses to create funny refs; we still need to audit - importers. See git-check-ref-format(1). - - -New Features and Commands -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -* .git/config file as a per-repository configuration mechanism, - and some commands understand it [Linus]. See - git(7). - -* The core.filemode configuration item can be used to make us a - bit more FAT friendly. See git(7). - -* The extended SHA1 notation acquired Peel-the-onion operator - ^{type} and ^{}. See git-rev-parse(1). - -* SVN importer [Matthias]. See git-svnimport(1). - -* .git/objects/[0-9a-f]{2} directories are created on demand, - and removed when becomes empty after prune-packed [Linus]. - -* Filenames output from various commands without -z option are - quoted when they embed funny characters (TAB and LF) using - C-style quoting within double-quotes, to match the proposed - GNU diff/patch notation [me, but many people contributed in - the discussion]. - -* git-mv is expected to be a better replacement for git-rename. - While the latter has two parameter restriction, it acts more - like the regular 'mv' that can move multiple things to one - destinatino directory [Josef Weidendorfer]. - -* git-checkout can take filenames to revert the changes to - them. See git-checkout(1) - -* The new program git-am is a replacement for git-applymbox that - has saner command line options and a bit easier to use when a - patch does not apply cleanly. - -* git-ls-remote can show unwrapped onions using ^{} notation, to - help Cogito to track tags. - -* git-merge-recursive backend can merge unrelated projects. - -* git-clone over native transport leaves the result packed. - -* git-http-fetch issues multiple requests in parallel when - underlying cURL library supports it [Nick and Daniel]. - -* git-fetch-pack and git-upload-pack try harder to figure out - better common commits [Johannes]. - -* git-read-tree -u removes a directory when it makes it empty. - -* git-diff-* records abbreviated SHA1 names of original and - resulting blob; this sometimes helps to apply otherwise an - unapplicable patch by falling back to 3-way merge. - -* git-format-patch now takes series of from..to rev ranges and - with '-m --stdout', writes them out to the standard output. - This can be piped to 'git-am' to implement cheaper - cherry-picking. - -* git-tag takes '-u' to specify the tag signer identity [Linus]. - -* git-rev-list can take optional pathspecs to skip commits that - do not touch them (--dense) [Linus]. - -* Comes with new and improved gitk [Paulus and Linus]. - diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 3c9946f2..62020893 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -6,23 +6,8 @@ The GIT To-Do File http://kernel.org/git/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;hb=todo;f=TODO -Tool Renames Plan -================= - - - Immedately after 0.99.9, the backward compatible symbolic - links in $(bindir) will be removed [DONE]. - - 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. - - - There was a discussion to move bulk of the git-* programs out - of /usr/bin and use /usr/lib/git; the central mechanism was - done, but the actual move is postponed post 1.0. - - -What to expect after 0.99.9 -=========================== +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 @@ -31,13 +16,12 @@ 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 ------------- -* Help Jon Loeliger to find place in the documentation to place - his drawing [DONE]. - * 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. @@ -57,33 +41,18 @@ Documentation them. * Accept patches to talk about "Whoops, it broke. What's - next?" [Started]. + next?" [ONGOING]. * Accept patches to make formatted tables in asciidoc to work well in both html and man pages (see git-diff(1)). +* Work around multiple synopses lines in manual pages + (e.g. git-bisect). + Technical (heavier) ------------------- -* Assess the side effects of "make the rest of the things - magically work from any subdirectory" change by Linus. It is - a good change in principle and we would like to have that - behaviour but some tool implementations I am sure are assuming - to never run from anywhere other than the top. [Post 1.0] - -* Ref namespace management. Perhaps use refs/local/ suggestion - by Linus. - -* 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 @@ -100,48 +69,49 @@ Technical (heavier) closely, (3) somebody who tends to follow only the point releases. -* Maybe an Emacs VC backend. + 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, or libxdiff. [Daniel has his own diff tool almost ready to start integrating and testing; Post 1.0] -* Plug-in file-level merges [Post 1.0]. +* 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. + +* 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.] Technical (milder) ------------------ +* strip leading directory from ls-tree output. + +* 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]. + * 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. + 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]. -* Binary package split. Plan laid out and discussion mostly - done. [RPM side done; Debian side delegated] - -* User-relative paths by Andreas Ericsson. [DONE] - -* Accessing configuration variables from C and from scripts by - Johannes [DONE]. +* daemon --strict-symlink [can be post 1.0]. -* Proxing git:// connection by Paul Collins. [DONE] - -* Maybe look at Cogito and see if I can help Pasky to adjust to - the later core features? +* Binary package split. Plan laid out and discussion mostly + done. [RPM side done; Debian side thrown over the wall.] * 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 patches to do undo/redo. - * Perhaps accept patch to optionally allow '--fuzz' in 'git-apply'. @@ -155,59 +125,14 @@ Technical (milder) handy if the repository contains wagging heads like "pu" in git.git repository. -* 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 [DONE]. - * 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]. -* Updated git-changes-script Jeff Garzik needs [Not needed -- - pull into local or borrow temporarily with alternate object - directories environment variable and use normal tools]. - -* Customizable init-db. Personally I think template mechanism - is good enough. Otherwise, maybe add hooks/post-init-db. - -* Make sure we do reasonable thing on binary files even in - cherry-pick and rebase [DONE]. - -* Binary diff detection fails if locale set to non English; even - GNU diff 2.8.1 and 2.8.7 in C locale say different things. At - least run diff under C locale (setenv LANG=C LC_ALL=C) for - 1.0. It might be better to have our own binary detection - logic, or even our own diff output without forking an external - diff. [The former _might_ make sense for 1.0, but the latter - is post 1.0]. - Technical (trivial) ------------------- -* Stop installing the old-name symlinks [DONE]. - -* 'git merge-projects'? - - 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 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. - [DONE] - - 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. Most of the C-level commands should be usable with relative directory paths.