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2005-12-21 TODO updates.

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@@ -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
-------------
* Accept patches to talk about "Whoops, it broke. What's
next?" [I think this is done].
* 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 make formatted tables in asciidoc to work
well in both html and man pages (see git-diff(1)) [DONE --
avoid them ;-)].
* 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.]
* Work around multiple synopses lines in manual pages
(e.g. git-bisect) [DONE -- avoid them ;-)].
* Perhaps "everything in config file"? Especially remotes/
shortcuts. I am modestly negative about this.
* 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: <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.
@@ -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.