From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:36:35 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Updates 2005-08-25
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b22ee7de4ec1d3c4d9a308d7c7afd68e0decf3f2;p=git.git

Updates 2005-08-25

* Link howto docs from the git.txt page.
* Fetching into the current branch bug.
* Initial commit with -m/-F flags.
* EJR portable patches.
* Mention undo/redo.
* Use 3-way merge more.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 15891f81..cc4dc346 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Documentation
   migration and update the cvs-migration documentation.
   Link the documentation from the main git.txt page.
 
+* Link howto docs from the git.txt page. [DONE]
+
 * Update the SubmittingPatches document to add MUA specific
   hints on how to disable unwanted MIME and flowed-text by
   collecting past list postings.  Accept patches from people who
@@ -53,12 +55,12 @@ Technical (milder)
   (e.g. somebody pushed into your repository, or you ran "git
   fetch" to update the ref your working tree is on), "git
   checkout" without -f gets confused.  Figure out a good way to
-  handle this.
+  handle this. [DONE - waiting for response]
 
 * "git commit -m" should work for initial commits and perhaps
   merge commits as well.  Warning about merge is still a good
   thing to do, while -m is useful in scripted non-interactive
-  use, so we need to be careful.
+  use, so we need to be careful. [DONE - waiting for response]
 
 * Encourage concrete proposals to commit log message templates
   we discussed some time ago.
@@ -69,12 +71,17 @@ Technical (milder)
 
     http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ejr/gits/git.git#portable 
 
+  [Looked at it.  Maybe promising.  Maybe not.]
+
 * Accept patches to cause "read-tree -u" delete a directory when
   it makes it empty.
 
 * Perhaps accept patches to introduce the concept of "patch flow
   expressed as ref mappings" Josef has been advocating about.
 
+* Perhaps accept patches to do undo/redo, but I am reluctant to
+  add commands to cover very limited use cases right now.
+
 * MIMEified applymbox to grok B and Q encodings in headers and
   turn them into UTF-8; unwrap QP; explode multipart.
 
@@ -83,6 +90,8 @@ Technical (milder)
   merge machinery; update rebase using the cherry-pick command.
   Carl's redo/undo might fall out naturally from this.
 
+* Redo "git revert" using 3-way merge machinery. [Done.]
+
 * A tool to detect, show and prune already merged topic
   branches.