X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=HACKING;h=da846f9a611c4d29eae9b43c901ac92268d9cbd2;hb=8f1a5aace7788ee23fb67530252ba434f35e7c51;hp=d5ac2f74c1850b2297424e43bf93169f0cdf54c8;hpb=d612d9a599590cb53a76711754f9e031f66a330a;p=bup.git diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index d5ac2f7..da846f9 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -19,27 +19,21 @@ via email. Current Trajectory ================== -Now that we've finished the 0.27 release, we're working on 0.28, 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. - -and these are also under consideration: +Now that we've finished the 0.30.1 release, we're working on 0.31, and +although we're not certain which new features will be included, we've +nearly finished adding support for Python 3, and are also considering: - 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.) @@ -59,13 +53,31 @@ 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 @@ -96,7 +108,7 @@ 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.