On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Daniel Barkalow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It might be worth putting the list of things left to do before 1.0 in the
> > tree (since they clearly covary), and it would be useful to know what
> > you're thinking of as preventing the release at any particular stage.
>
> Yeah, yeah. Call me lazy.
>
> Excerpts from my "last mile to 1.0", my Itchlist, and pieces from
> random other messages since then.
>
> - Documentation. [I really need help here --- among ~7000 lines
> there, I've written around 2500 lines, David Greaves another
> 2500, and Linus 1400. And it is not very easy to proofread
> what you wrote yourself.]
I'm not sure how done this can actually get before some sort of feature
freeze; the best ways to do things keeps changing as more convenient ways
are added. Once the new stuff is diverted to post-1.0, I'd be interested
in going through it.
> - git prune and git fsck-cache; think about their interactions
> with an object database that borrows from another. This
> includes the case where .git/objects itself is symlinked to
> somewhere else (i.e. running "git prune" that somewhere else
> without consulting this repository would lose objects), and
> alternates pointing at somewhere else (i.e. ditto).
It should be fine, but only if .git/refs is symlinked to the matching
place; this gives you the same repository with multiple working trees.
Having refs/ and objects/ directories that aren't always together would be
much less safe.
-Daniel
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