/brz/remove-bazaar : contents of TODO at revision 285

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(See also various low-level TODOs in the source code.  Try looking in
the list archive or on gmane.org for previous discussion of these
issues, or )

Small things
------------

* Add of a file that was present in the base revision should put back
  the previous file-id.

* Handle diff of files which do not have a trailing newline; probably
  requires patching difflib to get it exactly right, or otherwise
  calling out to GNU diff.

* Import ElementTree update patch.

* Syntax should be "bzr export -r REV".

* "cat -rREV FILE"

Medium things
-------------

* Faster diff/status.  

  Status should be handled differently because it needs to report on
  deleted and unknown files.  diff only needs to deal with versioned
  files.

* Merge Aaron's merge code.

* Merge revert patch.

* Turn on stat cache code, and add optimization about avoiding
  dangerous cache entries.

* mv command?

* More efficient diff of only selected files.

* Fix up Inventory objects to represent root object as an entry.

* Don't convert entire entry from 

* Extract changes from one revision to the next to a text form
  suitable for transmission over email.

* More test cases.

* Write a reproducible benchmark, perhaps importing various kernel versions.

* Change test.sh from Bourne shell into something in pure Python so
  that it can be more portable.

* Directly import diffs!  It seems a bit redundant to need to rescan
  the directory to work out what files diff added/deleted/changed when
  all the information is there in the diff in the first place.
  Getting the exact behaviour for added/deleted subdirectories etc
  might be hard.

  At the very least we could run diffstat over the diff, or perhaps
  read the status output from patch.  Just knowing which files might
  be modified would be enough to guide the add and commit.
  
  Given this we might be able to import patches at 1/second or better.

* Get branch over http.

* Pull pure updates over http.

* revfile compression.

* Split inventory into per-directory files.

* Fix ignore file parsing:

  - fnmatch is not the same as unix patterns

  - perhaps add extended globs from rsh/rsync

  - perhaps a pattern that matches only directories or non-directories

* Expansion of $Id$ tags within working files.  Perhaps do this in
  exports first as a simpler case because then we don't need to deal
  with removing the tags on the way back in.


Large things
------------

* Web interface

* GUI (maybe in Python GTK+?)

* C library interface

284 by Martin Pool - more TODO items	1	(See also various low-level TODOs in the source code. Try looking in
	2	the list archive or on gmane.org for previous discussion of these
	3	issues, or )
282 by Martin Pool - move all TODO items into ./TODO	4
	5	Small things
	6	------------
	7
	8	* Add of a file that was present in the base revision should put back
	9	the previous file-id.
	10
	11	* Handle diff of files which do not have a trailing newline; probably
	12	requires patching difflib to get it exactly right, or otherwise
	13	calling out to GNU diff.
	14
	15	* Import ElementTree update patch.
	16
284 by Martin Pool - more TODO items	17	* Syntax should be "bzr export -r REV".
282 by Martin Pool - move all TODO items into ./TODO	18
285 by Martin Pool - update todos	19	* "cat -rREV FILE"
285 by Martin Pool - update todos	20
282 by Martin Pool - move all TODO items into ./TODO	21	Medium things
	22	-------------
	23
	24	* Faster diff/status.
	25
	26	Status should be handled differently because it needs to report on
	27	deleted and unknown files. diff only needs to deal with versioned
	28	files.
	29
	30	* Merge Aaron's merge code.
	31
	32	* Merge revert patch.
	33
	34	* Turn on stat cache code, and add optimization about avoiding
	35	dangerous cache entries.
	36
	37	* mv command?
	38
	39	* More efficient diff of only selected files.
	40
	41	* Fix up Inventory objects to represent root object as an entry.
	42
	43	* Don't convert entire entry from
	44
	45	* Extract changes from one revision to the next to a text form
	46	suitable for transmission over email.
	47
	48	* More test cases.
	49
	50	* Write a reproducible benchmark, perhaps importing various kernel versions.
	51
	52	* Change test.sh from Bourne shell into something in pure Python so
	53	that it can be more portable.
	54
	55	* Directly import diffs! It seems a bit redundant to need to rescan
	56	the directory to work out what files diff added/deleted/changed when
	57	all the information is there in the diff in the first place.
	58	Getting the exact behaviour for added/deleted subdirectories etc
	59	might be hard.
	60
	61	At the very least we could run diffstat over the diff, or perhaps
	62	read the status output from patch. Just knowing which files might
	63	be modified would be enough to guide the add and commit.
	64
	65	Given this we might be able to import patches at 1/second or better.
	66
	67	* Get branch over http.
	68
	69	* Pull pure updates over http.
	70
	71	* revfile compression.
	72
	73	* Split inventory into per-directory files.
	74
284 by Martin Pool - more TODO items	75	* Fix ignore file parsing:
	76
	77	- fnmatch is not the same as unix patterns
	78
	79	- perhaps add extended globs from rsh/rsync
	80
	81	- perhaps a pattern that matches only directories or non-directories
	82
	83	* Expansion of $Id$ tags within working files. Perhaps do this in
	84	exports first as a simpler case because then we don't need to deal
	85	with removing the tags on the way back in.
	86
282 by Martin Pool - move all TODO items into ./TODO	87
	88	Large things
	89	------------
	90
	91	* Web interface
	92
	93	* GUI (maybe in Python GTK+?)
	94
284 by Martin Pool - more TODO items	95	* C library interface