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* Import ElementTree update patch.
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* Syntax should be "bzr export -r REV".
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* Plugins that provide commands. By just installing a file into some
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create new top-level commands ("bzr frob"). Extensions can be
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directory (e.g. ``/usr/share/bzr/plugins``) it should be possible to
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create new top-level commands (``bzr frob``). Extensions can be
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written in either Python (in which case they use the bzrlib API) or
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in a separate process (in sh, C, whatever). It should be possible
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to get help for plugin commands.
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* -r option should take a revision-id as well as a revno.
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* "bzr info" could show space used by working tree, versioned files,
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* ``bzr info`` could show space used by working tree, versioned files,
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unknown and ignored files.
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* "bzr info" should count only people with distinct email addresses as
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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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* Tidier error for EPIPE: should be just "bzr: broken pipe" with no
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other details because debugging information is rarely interesting.
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* On Windows, command-line arguments should be glob-expanded__,
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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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* 'bzr ignore' command that just adds a line to the .bzrignore file
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and makes it versioned.
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* 'bzr help commands' should give a one-line summary of each command.
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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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add a pattern which already exists, or if it looks like they gave an
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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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* Check all commands have decent help.
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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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* Atomic file class that renames into place when it's closed.
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* Don't abort if ``~/.bzr.log`` can't be used.
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* Split BzrError into various more specific subclasses for different
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errors people might want to catch.
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* If the export destination ends in '.tar', '.tar.gz', etc then create
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a tarball instead of a directory. (Need to actually make a
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temporary directory and then tar that up.)
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* testbzr should by default test the bzr binary in the same directory
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as the testbzr script, or take a path to it as a first parameter.
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Should show the version from bzr and the path name.
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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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* 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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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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* There are too many methods on Branch() that really manipulate the
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WorkingTree. They should be moved across.
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Inventory objects, and it should be made more clear which ones are
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proxies and which ones behave differently, and how.
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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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* 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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* Hooks for pre-commit, post-commit, etc.
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Consider the security implications; probably should not enable hooks