Re: Medium term dreams

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 04:19:47PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Perhaps because it is also Linus's brainchild, git development has not
generally advanced by intelligent design but by organic evolution.  We
have worked without setting any grand, long term visions, but primarily
by gathering the fruits of individual developers' work to scratch their
own itches.  While I do not see that as a problem at all, it sometimes
may help to write down some medium to long term wishes to review what we
haven't done (and we should) in a perspective.

This is such a wishlist, not a grand intelligent design in any way.

1. Pathspecs
2. Submodules

I'd add these two:

- Handle cvs/svn/whatever remotes as standard remotes.

I don't see why these remotes should have a different workflow, and why
there couldn't be hooks to do whatever is required to pull/push from
these remotes when git pull/push'ing. This might not be easy to implement,
but I think it is a worthwhile goal.

- Git-aware mergetool

There are various merge scenarios where using standard tools such as
those supported by current git-mergetool is not very helpful, and where
some basic git awareness might help the user resolve conflicts in more
natural ways.

Mike