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
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.
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
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]
-* 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'.
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.
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