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 from now on ========================== 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 ;-). Design issues ------------- * tree entries in index? -- sorry, stalled * "intent to add" index entries? -- together with the above needs rethinking. * 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 (or kompare). 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 was already working on this: , but I do not know what happened to his efforts] * Lazy clones that can be controlled by the user, ranging from totally on-demand a la CVS/SVN to "cache down to this old commit so that I can make full use of git on at least recent history". This need a lot of work in making tools to exit gracefully when they hit unavailable objects while offline. Technical (milder) ------------------ * duplicated refspec given to "fetch-pack a a a" makes it emit strange error message because it triggers the "match only once" logic. Maybe strip the dups on the input side (Uwe Zeisberger <20060608073857.GA5072@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>). * upload-pack support for start fetching from any valid point on the history, not just published refs. (Erik W. Biederman ) * git-daemon side support for virtual hosting. Client side is ready in 1.4.0 (Jon Loeliger <1149610100.23938.75.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com>). * teach git-upload-pack not to ack-continue early when the client has roots it does not know about but it already has learned the fork points for all the requested heads (Ralf Baechle <20060524131022.GA11449@linux-mips.org>). * Per user .gitconfig across repositories -- ongoing. * Encourage competition between annotate vs blame. Maybe come up with some nontrivial test cases. * Subprojects. Try "gitlink" -- sorry, stalled. * Rebase and checkout -m should be able to use recursive strategy as well. These commands currently do not work across renames. * 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. <43CC695E.2020506@codeweavers.com> * 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. <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. Would help internal tree-diff in rev-list as well. * 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. * Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well. Technical (trivial) ------------------- * git-proxy should be spawned with sh -c 'command' $1 $2. * Maybe a true git-proxy command that reads the first request pkt-line, and redirects the request to its real destination. * test scripts for the relative directory path stuff. * In a freshly created empty repository, `git fetch foo:bar` works OK, but `git checkout bar` afterwards does not (missing `.git/HEAD`). Local Variables: mode: text End: