From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:41:21 +0000 (-0800) Subject: 2005-12-21 TODO updates. X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd8b47db1a26557181fe4e807dd282b96863b3e6;p=git.git 2005-12-21 TODO updates. --- diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index eafbbce5..919ee3a1 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ The GIT To-Do File http://kernel.org/git/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;hb=todo;f=TODO -What to expect until and after 1.0 -================================== +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 @@ -16,16 +16,10 @@ 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 ;-). -Only handful things remain until 1.0. - Documentation ------------- -* 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 @@ -34,21 +28,24 @@ Documentation * 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 [Mostly done, with Carl's help]. -* Do we still have missing docs? If so accept patches to finish - them. +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. -* Accept patches to talk about "Whoops, it broke. What's - next?" [I think this is done]. +* 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.] -* Accept patches to make formatted tables in asciidoc to work - well in both html and man pages (see git-diff(1)) [DONE -- - avoid them ;-)]. +* Perhaps "everything in config file"? Especially remotes/ + shortcuts. I am modestly negative about this. -* Work around multiple synopses lines in manual pages - (e.g. git-bisect) [DONE -- avoid them ;-)]. +* Perhaps "setting umask from git_config()"? I am modestly + negative about this. Technical (heavier) @@ -57,8 +54,7 @@ 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 is already working on - this: ; Post - 1.0]. + this: ] * Maybe a pack optimizer. @@ -71,27 +67,28 @@ Technical (heavier) releases. This needs a matching smart on the dumb protocol downloader. - [Definitely post 1.0]. * 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]. 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.] + integrating and testing] Technical (milder) ------------------ +* send-pack/receive-pack protocol updates, to allow the receiver + to report what it did to the ref update requests. + +* Perhaps a smarter HTTP anonymous download via CGI. + +* Prepare to enable "always use symbolic refs for HEAD" patch. + We need a timeline to force Porcelains to get ready. + +* Forbid/ignore pack names that do not conform to the convention + sha1_pack_name() assumes and reject in check_packed_git_idx(). + * strip leading directory from ls-tree output, to match ls-files output. @@ -102,20 +99,9 @@ Technical (milder) * 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]. + Would help internal tree-diff in rev-list as well. -* 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. Alternatively, update-index needs to - give it a way to construct higher stages [DONE using the - "alternatively" implementation]. - -* daemon --strict-symlink [can be post 1.0]. - -* Binary package split. Plan laid out and discussion mostly - done. [RPM side done; Debian side thrown over the wall.] +* daemon --strict-symlink. * Perhaps detect cloning request in upload-pack and cache the result for next cloning request until any of our refs change. @@ -127,11 +113,10 @@ Technical (milder) to say '\No newline' if both input ends with incomplete lines. -* Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well. +* Perhaps deal with "Files differ" (binary diff) in non C + locales. -* Enhance "git repack" to not always use --all; this would be - handy if the repository contains wagging heads like "pu" in - git.git repository. +* Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well. * Output full path in the "git-rev-list --objects" output, not just the basename, and see the improved clustering results in @@ -141,6 +126,12 @@ Technical (milder) Technical (trivial) ------------------- +* Versioning scheme. The next maintenance installment will be + 1.0.3 not 1.0.0c. The next feature release would be 1.1.0. + +* Either drop supporting Debian myself or coerce patches out of + the official maintainer. + * 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.