The public version of the secret TODO list

(See also MissingFeatures)

General:

• Better documentation
• More regression tests
• More specific try/except.
• less code duplication, more code in the right places
• export to git

• Code cleanup: apply http://python.org/peps/pep-0008.html

• generate man page from doc strings

Core:

• difflib creating/removing files (fixed except dates: should be epoch)
• get various options from hgrc (e.g. history always -v, tip always -q)

• hg over rsync://, ftp://, etc.

• more complete set of hooks
• make showing removed files (in history etc.) faster.
• hgmerge error: merge should abort nicely and running it again should work
• .hgignore should use new patterns

Error Handling:

• fix clone error on disk full
• add bug reporting address to tracebacks
• add switch to launch Python debugger

• add KeyError exception handling to filelog, changelog, and manifest

Commands:

• hg extras: files not managed by hg that it is also not ignoring
• command to display file rev, changeset rev, changed, added, deleted, sha-1

• automatic pull fallback to old-http://

• create a commented .hg/hgrc on init/clone
• hg pull default in a subdir doesn't work, if it is a relative path
• hg clone should store corrected relative paths, so moving a directory containing related repositories works again
• if everyone knows 'hg update -m': remove -t
• hg revert does not forget added files, it probably should.
• hg pull: select to pull a subset of the heads
• hg clone: only link: changeset.i, changeset.d, manifest.i, manifest.d, data/*, localtags, ...
• hg clone: fall back to pull if hardlink not possible.
• "hg log not_existing" should yield an error message; add test for this.
• bug: "hg ci" removes files without requiring "hg rm"

Web:

• optionally only show merges (two parents)
• hgweb tip link too long (URL?cmd=changelog;rev=)
• hgweb: shorter links (e.g. cs=... instead of cmd=changeset;node=...?)
• hgweb: deliver static files (e.g. favicon, stylesheets)
• hgweb personalization: timezone (display/change), display of features, number of entries per page

• some web servers think hgweb.cgi.d/.i is a CGI script with old-http:// (use quoting (see foo.d in Core) or document server configurations?)

• link children in hgweb
• allow verbose mode
• hide trivial parent (like in show_changeset)
• download tarball via web interface

Portability:

• handle hardlinking on Windows
• fix hg import on Windows