Diff for "SpiderGoat"

On June 2nd-4th, 2006, the joint [:Bazaar:Bazaar]-NZ and Mercurial sprint took place in London, UK, under the code name "Revenge of the Spider Goat".

See:

• the [http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2006-May/008165.html Mailing list announcement]

• [http://www.serpentine.com/blog/software/mercurial/hg-bzr-sprint-1.html Bryan's writeup]

• the photo: attachment:spidergoat-2006.jpg
• the people in the photo (from left to right): matt mackall, aaron bentley, martin pool, thomas arendsen hein, mark shuttleworth, benoit boissinot, john arbash meinel, robert collins, bryan o'sullivan.

Topics for London sprint:

• efficient handling of tags
  • we currently read the manifest of each head in order to figure out which versions of the hgtags file to use. on a moderately large repo, even a single head makes this very slow
• possible improvements to branch tag algorithm
  • when merging named branches A and B, the new head shows up as the head of both A and B, so the asymmetry of "merged A into B" is not preserved
• what do we want to do, if anything, about deletions in file level revlogs?
• revisit appendfile
  • might be simpler to handle changelog specially; manifest doesn't need appendfile at all
• merge w/renames
• improving docs
  • api docs
  • user docs
• more efficient findincoming?
• rsync/sftp support
• http{,s} push support
  • add "unbundle" verb for ssh and http, to avoid exposing locking to remote clients
• handling of case-sensitivity and locale issues