Updates 2005-10-14 night

index 6544209066..84c3e7fc1b 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ patch, perhaps ;-). Documentation ------------- +* Document the ref naming restrictions. + * Help Jon Loeliger to find place in the documentation to place his drawing. @@ -116,6 +118,12 @@ Technical (heavier) Technical (milder) ------------------ +* Decide the notation of "peeling the onion" operator, and + implement it in sha1_name.c. Perhaps postfix "^{}" to mean + "peel and expect anything", "^{blob}" to mean "peel and barf + unless blob". The current "^0" becomes shorthand for + "^{commit}". [DONE] + * Quote the URL so that libcurl's metecharacter mechanism would not kick in [DONE]. @@ -160,8 +168,12 @@ Technical (milder) lines. * What to do with TABs and LFs in pathnames without breaking GNU - patch? [Have patch in proposed updates. Discussion still - ongoing with Paul.] + patch? [DONE -- go with GNU patch extension proposed by Paul]. + +* Adjust apply.c to proposed GNU patch extension that quotes \n + and \t in C style, inside "". [DONE] + +* Adjust diff.c to the same. [DONE] * Maybe grok PGP signed text/plain in applymbox as well. @@ -207,8 +219,16 @@ Technical (trivial) * Disallow [\001-\040\177] byte values from ref names. Also we need to disallow ':' (used in refspec), '^' and '~' (postfix - "peel the onion" operators) and leading '+' (again used in - refspec, as prefix "force update" operator) [DONE]. + "peel the onion" operators), and '..' ("ref1..ref2" notation + becomes ambiguous otherwise) [DONE]. + +* Update fetch-pack and clone-pack to ignore funny refs from the + other end, while making sure peek-remote does not discard them. + [DONE] + +* Update upload-pack to send tag^{}. This would hopefully help + Pasky's automated tag tracking, and also Martin's findtags. + [DONE] * short SHA1 naming is not enforcing uniqueness. Should fix [DONE].