X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=HACKING;h=cb576bdf7e64efa813218169b4d9adb314b4e948;hb=9ef961303049e17da0db16f75b35d1380f109643;hp=df5b26b05161baf35dd81c19c974a6a06184598f;hpb=54cacc1cfb7437f2c099e24b7d6e87d1c9422e13;p=bup.git diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index df5b26b..cb576bd 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -19,15 +19,25 @@ via email. Current Trajectory ================== -Now that we've finished the 0.25 release, we're working on 0.26, and -although we're not certain which new features will eventually be -included, here are some possible candidates: +Now that we've finished the 0.29.2 release, we're working on 0.30, and +although we're not certain which new features will be included, here +are likely candidates: + + - Support for transferring saves between repositories and rewriting + branches. + +and these are also under consideration: + + - Better VFS performance for large repositories (i.e. fuse, ls, + web...). + + - Incremental indexing via inotify. - - Support for rm/gc. - - Support for remote (push and/or pull) restore. - - Support for some kind of push/pull. - Smarter (and quieter) handling of cross-filesystem metadata. + - Support for more general purpose push/pull of branches, saves, and + tags between repositories. (See the bup-get patch series.) + If you have the time and inclination, please help review patches posted to the list, or post your own. (See "ways to help" below.) @@ -47,13 +57,31 @@ incorporating it into master, so reviews are an important way to help. We also love a good "Tested-by:" -- the more the merrier. +Testing +======= + +You can run the test suite much more quickly via "make -j test" (as +compared to "make test"), at the expense of slightly more confusing +output (interleaved parallel test output), and inaccurate intermediate +success/failure counts, but the final counts displayed should be +correct. + +Individual non-Python tests can be run via "./wvtest run t/TEST" and +if you'd like to see all of the test output, you can omit the wvtest +run wrapper: "t/TEST" + +Individual Python tests can be run via "./wvtest run ./wvtest.py +lib/bup/t/TEST", and as above, you can see all the output by omitting +the wvtest run wrapper like this: "./wvtest.py lib/bup/t/TEST" + + Submitting patches ================== As mentioned, all patches should be posted to the mailing list for review, and must be "signed off" by the author before official inclusion (see ./SIGNED-OFF-BY). You can create a "signed off" set of -patches in ./pending, ready for submission to the list, like this: +patches in ./patches, ready for submission to the list, like this: git format-patch -s -o patches origin/master @@ -84,7 +112,7 @@ Of course, unless your machine is set up to handle outgoing mail locally, you may need to configure git to be able to send mail. See git-send-email(1) for further details. -Oh, and we do have a ./CODING-STYLE, hobgoblins and all, though don't +Oh, and we do have a ./CODINGSTYLE, hobgoblins and all, though don't let that scare you off. We're not all that fierce.