On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Christian Couder
<christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Future work
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>
> First sorry about the state of this patch series, it is not as clean
> as I would have liked, butI think it is interesting to get feedback
> from the mailing list at this point, because the previous RFC was sent
> a long time ago and a lot of things changed.
>
> So a big part of the future work will be about cleaning this patch series.
>
> Other things I think I am going to do:
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> -
Ooops, I had not save my emacs buffer where I wrote this when I sent
the patch series.
This should have been:
Other things I think I may work on:
- Remove the "odb.<odbname>.scriptMode" and "odb.<odbname>.command"
options and instead have just "odb.<odbname>.scriptCommand" and
"odb.<odbname>.subprocessCommand".
- Use capabilities instead of "odb.<odbname>.fetchKind" to decide
which kind of "get" will be used.
- Better test all the combinations of the above modes with and
without "have" and "put" instructions.
- Maybe also have different kinds of "put" so that Git could pass
either a git object a plain object or ask the helper to retreive
it directly from Git's object database.
- Maybe add an "init" instruction as the script mode has something
like this called "get_cap" and it would help the sub-process mode
too, as it makes it possible for Git to know the capabilities
before trying to send any instruction (that might not be supported
by the helper). The "init" instruction would be the only required
instruction for any helper to implement.
- Add more long running tests and improve tests in general.
