hgext/git/TODO.md
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Thu, 16 Feb 2023 02:19:56 +0100
changeset 50074 a2def50142ea
parent 44621 c5653cf2811d
permissions -rw-r--r--
dirstate: document the functions that need consolidation They are more functions that make the dirstate dirty but does not currently enforce a clean change scoping, we add comments in front of each of them so clarify this. There is no urgency to it, but the world will be a better place when all of them have proper scoping in place.

Octopus Merge Support
=====================

This will be moderately complicated, as we'll need to synthesize phony
changeset entries to explode the octopus into "revisions" that only
have two parents each. For today, we can probably just do something like

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaXX{20 bytes of exploded node's hex sha}

where XX is a counter (so we could have as many as 255 parents in a
git commit - more than I think we'd ever see.) That means that we can
install some check in this extension to disallow checking out or
otherwise interacting with the `aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa` revisions.


Interface Creation
====================

We at least need an interface definition for `changelog` in core that
this extension can satisfy, and again for `basicstore`.


Reason About Locking
====================

We should spend some time thinking hard about locking, especially on
.git/index etc. We're probably adequately locking the _git_
repository, but may not have enough locking correctness in places
where hg does locking that git isn't aware of (notably the working
copy, which I believe Git does not lock.)