http://kernel.org/git/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;hb=todo;f=TODO
-Tool Renames Plan
-=================
-
- - 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
- continues to invoke its old-name counterpart on the other
- end.
-
-
-What to expect after 0.99.8
-===========================
+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
Documentation
-------------
-* Document the ref naming restrictions [DONE].
+* Take the updated tutorial by Bruce Fields very seriously. It
+ is a quite good initiative.
+
+
+Design issues
+-------------
+
+* 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.
+
+* Doing a merge in a separate directory.
-* David Ho's report suggests whatchanged documentation should
- mention -m as "commonly used options". Steal Linus'
- response [DONE].
+* Subprojects. I think the "bind commit" approach has been
+ outlined at sufficiently detailed level. Maybe find time to
+ actually start prototyping it?
-* Help Jon Loeliger to find place in the documentation to place
- his drawing.
+ <7vacdzkww3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
-* 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.
+* Make 'format-patch' take revision limiters similar to
+ rev-list. For example:
-* 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).
+ A C
+ ....---x---o---o---x---o---o
+ /
+ /
+ /
+ ....---x---o---o
+ B
-* Maybe update tutorial with a toy project that involves two or
- three developers..
+ we should be able to format commits 'o', without duplicates,
+ by:
-* Update tutorial to cover setting up repository hooks to do
- common tasks.
+ $ git format-patch ^A ^B C
-* Do we still have missing docs? If so accept patches to finish
- them.
+ Currently the closest approximation is
-* Accept patches to talk about "Whoops, it broke. What's
- next?".
+ $ git format-patch A..C B..C
-* Accept patches to make formatted tables in asciidoc to work
- well in both html and man pages (see git-diff(1)).
+ which results in the last two commits including C formatted
+ twice.
Technical (heavier)
-------------------
-* We might want to optimize cloning with GIT native transport
- not to explode the pack, and store it in objects/pack instead.
- 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. [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
- 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 [Deployed and fixes and enhancement continuing].
-
* 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: <pan.2005.10.03.20.48.52.132570@smurf.noris.de>; Post
- 1.0].
+ this: <pan.2005.10.03.20.48.52.132570@smurf.noris.de>]
* Maybe a pack optimizer.
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: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509221617300.23242@iabervon.org>
+* 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]
-
-* Accept patches to fetch multiple objects by HTTP in parallel.
- [DONE]
-
-* Plug-in file-level merges [Post 1.0].
-
-* Per-repository configuration mechanism [DONE by Linus].
+ integrating and testing]
Technical (milder)
------------------
-* Merlyn reports trouble with http fetch.
+* 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.
-* 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.
+ <43CC695E.2020506@codeweavers.com>
-* Perhaps accept more "want"s in upload-pack and do something
- intelligent about it.
+* 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 does not feel quite right.
-* Perhaps send less "want"s from fetch-pack [DONE by JS].
+ <20060114021800.4688.qmail@web31803.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
-* Look at svn importer Smurf has. There is a small cvsimport
- update in his tree as well [DONE].
+* Perhaps a smarter HTTP anonymous download via CGI.
-* 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]
+* Prepare to enable "always use symbolic refs for HEAD" patch.
+ We need a timeline to force Porcelains to get ready. All the
+ major ones should be ready now.
-* Quote the URL so that libcurl's metecharacter mechanism would
- not kick in [DONE].
+* Prepare to enable "most of the things are installed in
+ GIT_EXEC_PATH not in bindir". I do not plan to set bindir !=
+ gitexecdir myself in the main Makefile I ship, but distos
+ should be able to choose to do so.
-* Review the Makefile variables and exporting rules for them,
- while looking at prefix passing by Kai Ruemmler [DONE].
+* Forbid/ignore pack names that do not conform to the convention
+ sha1_pack_name() assumes and reject in check_packed_git_idx()
+ [In "pu"]
-* Review the 'sparse object database' change by Linus and move
- the first phase of it to the "master" branch [DONE].
+* Any Porcelain-ish we forgot or punted to make usable from
+ subdirectory? I think the last pass caught everything and
+ what are remaining are whole-tree or whole repository
+ operations.
-* Decide on mmap(). I am inclined to just stick to mmap
- replacement by Johannes Schindelin and do nothing else right
- now, except perhaps drop the writing-back support [DONE].
+* 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.
-* Revisit Santi's patch to move commit temorary files out of the
- working tree toplevel [DONE].
+* daemon --strict-symlink.
-* 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.
+* daemon --no-user-dir, to make ~user still work with
+ --base-path. They ought to be independent.
-* Encourage concrete proposals to commit log message templates
- we discussed some time ago.
+* daemon --base-path does not apply automatically to whitelist
+ somehow feels wrong. If somebody cares enough, accept
+ patches.
-* Accept patches to cause "read-tree -u" delete a directory when
- it makes it empty [DONE].
-
-* Perhaps accept patches to do undo/redo.
+* 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'.
+ 'git-apply'. am/applymbox is _not_ the place to do it.
* Allow 'git apply' to accept GNU diff 2.7 output that forgets
to say '\No newline' if both input ends with incomplete
lines.
-* What to do with TABs and LFs in pathnames without breaking GNU
- 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]
+* Perhaps deal with "Files differ" (binary diff) in non C
+ locales.
* Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well.
-* Perhaps a tool to revert a single file to pre-modification
- 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 [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
- git.git repository.
-
-* Internally split the project into non-doc and doc parts; add
- an extra root for the doc part and merge from it; move the
- internal doc source to a separate repository, like the +Meta
- repository; experiment if this results in a reasonable
- workflow, and document it in howto form if it does.
-
- The point is to make it possible to fork that part off to
- somebody else; then I do not have to maintain Documentation
- directory myself anymore, just like I simply slurp the latest
- gitk from Paul and not worry about it ;-).
-
-* 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].
-
-* 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].
-
-* Stop installing the old-name symlinks [POSTPONED, but before 1.0].
-
-* '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/).
+* s/naked/bare/g.
-* 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-proxy should be spawned with sh -c 'command' $1 $2.
- git-update-index
- git-ls-files
- git-diff-files
- git-diff-index
- git-diff-tree
- git-rev-list
- git-rev-parse
+* 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`).
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