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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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* 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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* 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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* 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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http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/2194.html
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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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* 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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* 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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* Faster diff/status.
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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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* Merge revert patch.
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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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* ``bzr mv`` that does either rename or move as in Unix.
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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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* 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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* 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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Also there are some methods which are duplicated on Tree and
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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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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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* 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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