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For things to do in Bazaar development, see
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/
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https://blueprints.launchpad.net/bzr/
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.. -*- mode: indented-text; compile-command: "make -C doc" -*-
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See also various low-level TODOs in the source code. Try looking in
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the list archive or on gmane.org for previous discussion of these
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These are classified by approximate size: an hour or less, a day or
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less, and several days or more.
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* Fix tests so that import errors caused by modules don't produce false reports
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that the tests themselves don't exist.
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* Fix tests so that one test failure doesn't prevent other tests from running
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* print a message at the end of running the tests telling them that the
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test log and output exists but can be removed
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* tests for running the commit editor, and fix problem of not passing in
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* Merging add of a new file clashing with an existing file doesn't
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work; add gets an error that it's already versioned and the merge
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* Merge should ignore the destination's working directory, otherwise
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we get an error about the statcache when pulling from a remote
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* Add of a file that was present in the base revision should put back
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* Not sure I'm happy with needing to pass a root id to EmptyTree;
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comparing anything against an EmptyTree with no root should have the
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* Handle diff of files which do not have a trailing newline; probably
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requires patching difflib to get it exactly right, or otherwise
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calling out to GNU diff.
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* Should be able to copy files between branches to preserve their
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file-id (and perhaps eventually parentage.)
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* -r option should take a revision-id as well as a revno.
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* ``bzr info`` should count only people with distinct email addresses as
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different committers. (Or perhaps only distinct userids?)
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* On Windows, command-line arguments should be `glob-expanded`__,
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because the shell doesn't do this. However, there are probably some
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commands where this shouldn't be done, such as 'bzr ignore', because
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we want to accept globs.
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* ``bzr ignore`` command that just adds a line to the ``.bzrignore`` file
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and makes it versioned. Fix this to break symlinks.
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* Any useful sanity checks in 'bzr ignore'? Perhaps give a warning if
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they try to add a single file which is already versioned, or if they
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add a pattern which already exists, or if it looks like they gave an
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__ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/037847.html
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* Separate read and write version checks?
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* ``bzr status DIR`` should give status on all files under that
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* ``bzr log DIR`` should give changes to any files within DIR; at the
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moment it only lists things which modify the specific named file
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(and not its contents)
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* ``bzr inventory -r REV`` and perhaps unify this with ``bzr ls``,
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giving options to display ids, types, etc.
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* RemoteBranch could maintain a cache either in memory or on disk. We
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know more than an external cache might about which files are
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immutable and which can vary. On the other hand, it's much simpler
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to just use an external proxy cache.
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Perhaps ~/.bzr/http-cache. Baz has a fairly simple cache under
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~/.arch-cache, containing revision information encoded almost as a
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bunch of archives. Perhaps we could simply store full paths.
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* Maybe also store directories in the statcache so that we can quickly
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identify that they still exist.
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* Diff should show timestamps; for files from the working directory we
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can use the file itself; for files from a revision we should use the
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commit time of the revision.
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* Perhaps split command infrastructure from the actual command
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* Cleaner support for negative boolean options like --no-recurse.
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* Statcache should possibly map all file paths to / separators
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* quotefn doubles all backslashes on Windows; this is probably not the
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best thing to do. What would be a better way to safely represent
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filenames? Perhaps we could doublequote things containing spaces,
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on the principle that filenames containing quotes are unlikely?
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Nice for humans; less good for machine parsing.
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* Patches should probably use only forward slashes, even on Windows,
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otherwise Unix patch can't apply them. (?)
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* Branch.update_revisions() inefficiently fetches revisions from the
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remote server twice; once to find out what text and inventory they
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need and then again to actually get the thing. This is a bit
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One complicating factor here is that we don't really want to have
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revisions present in the revision-store until all their constituent
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parts are also stored.
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The basic problem is that RemoteBranch.get_revision() and similar
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methods return object, but what we really want is the raw XML, which
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can be popped into our own store. That needs to be refactored.
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* Guard against repeatedly merging any particular patch.
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* More options for diff:
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- diff two revisions of the same tree
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- diff two different branches, optionally at different revisions
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- diff a particular file in another tree against the corresponding
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version in this tree (which should be the default if the second
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parameter is a tree root)
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- diff everything under a particular directory, in any of the above
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- diff two files inside the same tree, even if they have different
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- and, of course, tests for all this
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* Reproducible performance benchmark to measure whether performance is
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getting better or worse.
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* ``bzr log -m foo`` should perhaps error if nothing matches?
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* ``bzr diff -r 30 -r 40 foo.c`` or ``bzr diff -r30..40 foo.c``
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If diffing between two branches then we probably want two -r
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options, since the revisions don't form a range that can be
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evaluated on either one.
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* bzr diff shouldn't diff binary files
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* setup.py install when run from a bzr tree should freeze the tree
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revision-id into the installed bzr.
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* bzr script should trap ImportError and perhaps give a better error
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* revert after a merge should possibly remove all the BASE/THIS/OTHER
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files to get you back to where you were.
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* files that are added and then deleted are still reported as added
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* stores should raise KeyError, not IndexError
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* merging from a remote branch seems to sometimes raise errors not
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* should be possible to give a related branch when pulling from a
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remote branch to make things faster
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* sometimes gives "conflicting add" even when the contents are in fact
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* BZRDIR should be in branch.py not __init__.py.
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* merge should add all revision and inventory XML to the local store.
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* check should give a warning for revisions that are named in the
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chain but not actually present in the store.
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* remove anything outside of the branch implementation that directly
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* More efficient diff of only selected files. We should be able to
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just get the id for the selected files, look up their location and
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diff just those files. No need to traverse the entire inventories.
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* Fix up Inventory objects to represent root object as an entry.
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* Don't convert entire entry from ElementTree to an object when it is
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read in, but rather wait until the program actually wants to know
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* Extract changes from one revision to the next to a text form
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suitable for transmission over email.
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- ``missing`` command
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- Selected-file commit
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- Impossible selected-file commit: adding things in non-versioned
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directories, crossing renames, etc.
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* Write a reproducible benchmark, perhaps importing various kernel versions.
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* Directly import diffs! It seems a bit redundant to need to rescan
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the directory to work out what files diff added/deleted/changed when
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all the information is there in the diff in the first place.
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Getting the exact behaviour for added/deleted subdirectories etc
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At the very least we could run diffstat over the diff, or perhaps
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read the status output from patch. Just knowing which files might
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be modified would be enough to guide the add and commit.
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Given this we might be able to import patches at 1/second or better.
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* revfile compression.
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* Split inventory into per-directory files?
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* Fix ignore file parsing:
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- fnmatch is not the same as unix patterns
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- perhaps add extended globs from rsh/rsync
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- perhaps a pattern that matches only directories or non-directories
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* Consider using Python logging library as well as/instead of
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* Commands should give some progress indication by default.
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- But quieten this with ``--silent``.
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* Change to using gettext message localization.
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* Make a clearer separation between internal and external bzrlib
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interfaces. Make internal interfaces use protected names. Write at
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least some documentation for those APIs, probably as docstrings.
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Consider using ZopeInterface definitions for the external interface;
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I think these are already used in PyBaz. They allow automatic
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checking of the interface but may be unfamiliar to general Python
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developers, so I'm not really keen.
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* Commands to dump out all command help into a manpage or HTML file or
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* Handle symlinks in the working directory; at the very least it
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should be possible for them to be present and ignored/unknown
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without causing assertion failures.
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Eventually symlinks should be versioned.
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* Allow init in a subdirectory to create a nested repository, but only
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if the subdirectory is not already versioned. Perhaps also require
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a ``--nested`` to protect against confusion.
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* More test framework:
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- Class that describes the state of a working tree so we can just
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* Try using XSLT to add some formatting to REST-generated HTML. Or
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maybe write a small Python program that specifies a header and foot
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for the pages and calls into the docutils libraries.
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* --format=xml for log, status and other commands.
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* Attempting to explicitly add a file that's already added should give
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a warning; however there should be no warning for directories (since
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we scan for new children) or files encountered in a directory that's
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* Better handling of possible collisions on case-losing filesystems;
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make sure a single file does not get added twice under different
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* Clean up XML inventory:
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- Use nesting rather than parent_id pointers.
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- Hold the ElementTree in memory in the Inventory object and work
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directly on that, rather than converting into Python objects every
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time it is read in. Probably still expose it through some kind of
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object interface though, but perhaps that should just be a proxy
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- Less special cases for the root directory.
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* Perhaps inventories should remember the revision in which each file
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was last changed, as well as its current state? This is a bit
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redundant but might often be interested to know.
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* stat cache should perhaps only stat files as necessary, rather than
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doing them all up-front. On the other hand, that disallows the
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optimization of stating them in inode order.
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* It'd be nice to pipeline multiple HTTP requests. Often we can
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predict what will be wanted in future: all revisions, or all texts
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in a particular revision, etc.
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urlgrabber's docs say they are working on batched downloads; we
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could perhaps ride on that or just create a background thread (ew).
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* Paranoid mode where we never trust SHA-1 matches.
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* --dry-run mode for commit? (Or maybe just run with
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check-command=false?)
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* Generally, be a bit more verbose unless --silent is specified.
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* Function that finds all changes to files under a given directory;
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perhaps log should use this if a directory is given.
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* XML attributes might have trouble with filenames containing \n and
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\r. Do we really want to support this? I think perhaps not.
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* Unify smart_add and plain Branch.add(); perhaps smart_add should
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just build a list of files to add and pass that to the regular add
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* Function to list a directory, saying in which revision each file was
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last modified. Useful for web and GUI interfaces, and slow to
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compute one file at a time.
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This will be done when we track file texts by referring to the
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version that created them.
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* Check locking is correct during merge-related operations.
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* Perhaps attempts to get locks should timeout after some period of
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time, or at least display a progress message.
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* Don't pass around command classes but rather pass objects. This'd
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make it cleaner to construct objects wrapping external commands.
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* Track all merged-in revisions in a versioned add-only metafile.
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* ``uncommit`` command that removes a revision from the end of the
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revision-history; just doing this is enough to remove the commit,
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and a new commit will automatically be made against the
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predecessor. This can be repeated.
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It only makes sense to delete from the tail of history.
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This has been implemented, but it does not remove the texts from
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* Generate annotations from current file relative to previous
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- Is it necessary to store any kind of annotation where data was
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* Update revfile_ format and make it active:
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- Texts should be identified by something keyed on the revision, not
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an individual text-id. This is much more useful for annotate I
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think; we want to map back to the revision that last changed it.
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- Access revfile revisions through the Tree/Store classes.
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- Check them from check commands.
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.. _revfile: revfile.html
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* Hooks for pre-commit, post-commit, etc.
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Consider the security implications; probably should not enable hooks
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for remotely-fetched branches by default.
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* Pre-commit check. If this hook is defined, it needs to be handled
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specially: create a temporary directory containing the tree as it
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will be after the commit. This means excluding any ignored/unknown
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files, and respecting selective commits. Run the pre-commit check
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(e.g. compile and run test suite) in there.
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Possibly this should be done by splitting the commit function into
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several parts (under a single interface). It is already rather
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large. Decomposition:
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- find tree modifications and prepare in-memory inventory
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- export that inventory to a temporary directory
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- run the test in that temporary directory
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- if that succeeded, continue to actually finish the commit
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What should be done with the text of modified files while this is
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underway? I don't think we want to count on holding them in memory
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and we can't trust the working files to stay in one place so I
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suppose we need to move them into the text store, or otherwise into
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a temporary directory.
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If the commit does not actually complete, we would rather the
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content was not left behind in the stores.
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* GUI (maybe in Python GTK+?)
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* C library interface
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* Expansion of $Id$ keywords within working files. Perhaps do this in
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exports first as a simpler case because then we don't need to deal
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with removing the tags on the way back in.
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