hgext/git/TODO.md
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
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tests: stabilize test-git-interop.t for some versions of git Not sure why this differs on my system, but it's likely due to running 2.17.1 on Ubuntu 18.04. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10520
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Octopus Merge Support
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This will be moderately complicated, as we'll need to synthesize phony
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changeset entries to explode the octopus into "revisions" that only
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have two parents each. For today, we can probably just do something like
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    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaXX{20 bytes of exploded node's hex sha}
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where XX is a counter (so we could have as many as 255 parents in a
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git commit - more than I think we'd ever see.) That means that we can
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install some check in this extension to disallow checking out or
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otherwise interacting with the `aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa` revisions.
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Interface Creation
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We at least need an interface definition for `changelog` in core that
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this extension can satisfy, and again for `basicstore`.
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Reason About Locking
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We should spend some time thinking hard about locking, especially on
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.git/index etc. We're probably adequately locking the _git_
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repository, but may not have enough locking correctness in places
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where hg does locking that git isn't aware of (notably the working
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copy, which I believe Git does not lock.)