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What to expect after 0.99.5
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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
myself. People interested in seeing it materialize please take
a hint.
Documentation
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* 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.
* 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
was hit by shiny blue bat to update the same.
* 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.
* Update tutorial to cover shared repository style a bit more,
maybe with a toy project that involves two or three
repositories.
* Update tutorial to cover setting up repository hooks to do
common tasks.
* Get help to properly use asciidoc in tutorial.
* Maybe justify and demonstrate an Octopus in the tutorial. Add
it to the glossary.
Technical (heavier)
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* Tony Luck reported an unfortunate glitch in the 3-way merge.
Encourage discussions to come up with a not-so-expensive way
to catch the kind of ambiguities that led to his misery.
* 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.
Technical (milder)
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* When the branch head pointed by $GIT_DIR/HEAD changes while
the index file and working tree are looking the other way
(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. [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. [DONE - waiting for response]
* Encourage concrete proposals to commit log message templates
we discussed some time ago.
* Bug Ryan and work with him to update send-email easier to use.
[Resurrected it for Debian build.]
* Look at portability fixes from Jason Riedy
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.
* "git cherry-pick" that applies the patch an existing commit
introduces in its ancestry chain, possibly using the 3-way
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.
* Set up an automated documentation rebuilding procedure at
kernel.org, using update hook mechanism. [Almost, but not quite.]
* Enhance "git repack" to not always use --all; this would be
handy if the repository contains wagging heads like "pu" in
git.git repository.
Technical (trivial)
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* Perhaps "git branch -d" to delete a branch.
* Remove "git clone-dumb-http".
* 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:
update-cache
ls-files
diff-files
diff-cache
diff-tree
rev-list