X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bup.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=HACKING;h=6dc10b19aa95319b5ef804e7757fa03b3924e19f;hp=6ecab7ea3bd29c72e909effcd78e7c246f73ac0f;hb=a74f980a79911b14bc5572921f6c9ff94990fc2e;hpb=82fe455b6c6f57db8f062bf27af4c7ddb2e83226 diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 6ecab7e..6dc10b1 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -19,27 +19,26 @@ via email. Current Trajectory ================== -Now that we've finished the 0.27 release, we're working on 0.28, and +Now that we've finished the 0.30 release, we're working on 0.31, and although we're not certain which new features will be included, here are likely candidates: - - Support for rm/gc. - - - Support for transferring saves between repositories and rewriting - branches. + - Accommodation for the upcoming demise of Python 2, most likely via + support for Python 3. and these are also under consideration: - Better VFS performance for large repositories (i.e. fuse, ls, web...). + - Better VFS caching. + + - Index improvements. + - Incremental indexing via inotify. - 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.) @@ -59,6 +58,24 @@ 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 ================== @@ -96,7 +113,7 @@ 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.