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 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. What to expect after 0.99.9 =========================== 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. Also whatever I marked "Perhaps" do not have to happen if ever -- only if somebody cares enough and submits a clean patch, perhaps ;-). 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. * 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. * Update tutorial to cover setting up repository hooks to do common tasks. * Do we still have missing docs? If so accept patches to finish them. * Accept patches to talk about "Whoops, it broke. What's next?" [Started]. * Accept patches to make formatted tables in asciidoc to work well in both html and man pages (see git-diff(1)). 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. * 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 this: ; Post 1.0]. * Maybe a pack optimizer. 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. * Maybe an Emacs VC backend. * 'git split-projects'? This requires updated 'git-rev-list' to skip irrelevant commits. Message-ID: * 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]. Technical (milder) ------------------ * Binary package split. Plan laid out and discussion mostly done. * 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. * 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'. * Allow 'git apply' to accept GNU diff 2.7 output that forgets to say '\No newline' if both input ends with incomplete lines. * 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. * 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 [mechanism mostly 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 [Inquiry for external spec sent out with a quick hack. Will know if that is what he needs hopefully soon]. * Make sure we do reasonable thing on binary files even in cherry-pick and rebase. 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. [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/). * 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` works OK, but `git checkout bar` afterwards does not (missing `.git/HEAD`). Local Variables: mode: text End: