From: "Jeff King" <peff@xxxxxxxx>
On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 04:36:24PM +0000, Thomas Gummerer wrote:
Normally attendees work in small groups on a specific task to
prevent anyone from getting stuck. Per usual, Bloomberg will
provide the venue, mentors, snacks and drinks. Bring your
enthusiasm (and your laptop!) and come share in the fun! The
event is also open to everyone, so feel free to pass on the
invite!
I think it will help if the experienced members of the community (both
those who will be at the event and not) can come up with some possible
topics to work on (though of course I'd be glad for participants to come
with their own itch to scratch).
We've started using the #leftoverbits tag to allow searching in the
archive:
https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=leftoverbits
Some of those have since been completed, but others are left open.
There's not really a master list, but it's a potential source for
digging for gold (well, if you want to call leftover bugs gold :) ).
I started a list over the summer of larger items that people might want
to pick up. Here it is in no particular order:
- the pager.<cmd> config is mis-designed, because our config keys
cannot represent all possible command names (e.g., case folding and
illegal characters). This should be pager.<cmd>.enable or similar.
Some discussion in (this message and the surrounding thread):
https://public-inbox.org/git/20170711101942.h2uwxtgzvgguzivu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
But I think you could find more by searching the archive.
- ditto for alias.* config, which has the same syntax problems.
- auto-gc is sometimes over-anxious to run if you have a lot of
unreachable loose objects. We should pack unreachables into a single
pack. That solves the --auto problem, and is also way more efficient.
The catch is expiration. Some discussion here (and especially
down-thread):
https://public-inbox.org/git/20170711101942.h2uwxtgzvgguzivu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
- git-config's "--get-color" is unlike all the other types in that it
takes a "default" value if the config key isn't set. This makes it
annoyingly
inconsistent, but there's also no way to ask Git to interpret other
values (e.g., you might want it to expand "--path" or an "--int"). It
would be nice to have a general "--default" option so you could do:
# same as git config --get-color color.diff.old red
git config --default red --color color.diff.old
or
# not currently possible to ask git to interpret "10k"
git config --default 10k --int some.integer.key
- git's internal config can parse expiration dates (see
parse_expiry_date()), but you can't do so from git-config. It should
probably have a type for "--expiry-date" (which would of course be
more useful with the --default option above).
- there's no efficient way to ask git-config for several keys with a
specific type (or even multiple different types). You can use
"--list" to get their strings, but you can't get any interpretation
(like colors, integers, etc). Invoking git-config many times can have
a noticeable speed impact for a script. There should probably be a
"--stdin" mode (or maybe "--get-stdin" if we would one day want to
have a "--set-stdin") that takes a list of keys, optional types, and
optional defaults (that "--default" again!) and outputs them to
stdout.
Those were just sitting on my ideas list. I'm happy to go into more
detail if anybody's interested in discussing any of them. Some of them
may be half-baked.
And of course I'd be happy if people wanted to contribute more items to
the list.
A few I've seen recently are:
* The provison of a `git resolve -X <ours|theirs> -- <pathspec>` command to
simplify the manual resolution of remaining conflicts.
https://public-inbox.org/git/8737615iu5.fsf@xxxxxxxxx/ Sergey Organov: How
to re-merge paths differently?
* (Git for Windows/HFS): Detect directory capitalisation changes when
switching branches, and rename them correctly on case preserving, case
insensitive file systems. Optimisation: If the underlying tree is identical
then do not update the modified dates.
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1333 Chuck Lu: Folder name
should be case sensitive when switch branches.
* (Git for Windows/HFS) (long standing):
detect branch name capitalisation issues
- may need a struct to carry both the filename and pathname down the
different parts of the code base so that the FS name of the requested
ref/heads/ can be checked and warned.
e.g. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/852 "`git checkout head`
inconsistent behavior"
- ('head' finds 'HEAD', but also 'branch' finds 'Branch');
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/852#issuecomment-239675187 ->
"rambling notes" for partial analysis.
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/752 "git checkout creating
tracking branch using case-insensitive match?"
- Is this part of the same problem?
* Documentation:
There's always the newby role at the hackathon of collating
all the "what does this command do/mean?" questions that could be resolved
by simple updates, or capturing locally written explanations to improve the
manual pages. (easy patch practice)
Perhaps see how `git rerere` could be better explained and integrated onto
the other man pages so that more folk naturally know of it and use it. (see
also the `git resolve` question above)
Also for case sensitivity documentation
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/908#issuecomment-325116189
--
Philip
