Codeville

TODO - larger features

• merge-through-conflict code (necessary in rare cases for revert and resurrection)
• revert (for name operations, this already works for file contents)
• resurrecting deleted files
• access control lists on repository paths in the server
• support for binaries
• metadata (the execute bit, for instance)
• internationalization
• deal with case-insensitive file systems
• blame/annotate
• more polish
• cherry picking individual changes
• rollback of individual changes

TODO - smaller stuff

• Security audit of networking code
• Shared secrets are stored encrypted against the users password, should also include a salt to protect against precomputed dictionary attacks
• Move authentication-related info out of the tree.
• Graphical history browsing tool.
• Graphical conflict resolution tool, something like dirdiff which can read the inline conflict info.
• Code cleanup - there are places in the code (sync_history(), gen_changeset(), handle_contents_at_point()) which should be using DFS.py to do a topological sort instead of being ad-hoc about it. This is a good way to become more familiar with the code.
• Replace the stop-and-wait changeset fetching over the network with something better. Ask on the mailing list for more details.
• Better parallelize the delta fetching and history replaying by moving one of the 2 into a separate thread.
• Documentation. Some HowTo guides would be especially useful for things like history browsing.
• Fix the file ignore pattern stuff. Should probably work more like CVS.
• Remember which files had conflicts after an update and have the status command display them.
• Force users to resolve name conflicts before allowing relevent files to be committed.

— Bram and Ross