Re: Medium term dreams

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

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