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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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* Add of a file that was present in the base revision should put back
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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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* 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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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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* Smart rewrap text in help messages to fit in $COLUMNS (or equivalent
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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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unknown and ignored files.
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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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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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__ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/037847.html
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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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* 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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* Display command grammar in help messages rather than hardcoding it.
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* Change command functions into Command() objects, like in hct, and
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then the grammar can be described directly in there. Since all
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option definitions are global we can define them just once and
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reference them from each command.
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* Selective commit of only some files.
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Status should be handled differently because it needs to report on
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deleted and unknown files. diff only needs to deal with versioned
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* Merge Aaron's merge code.
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* Turn on stat cache code, and add optimization about avoiding
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dangerous cache entries.
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* More efficient diff of only selected files.
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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
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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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* Write a reproducible benchmark, perhaps importing various kernel versions.
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* Change test.sh from Bourne shell into something in pure Python so
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that it can be more portable.
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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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* Get branch over http.
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* Pull pure updates over http.
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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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* 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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* Change to using gettext message localization.
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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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* GUI (maybe in Python GTK+?)
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