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Re: Cogito Tutorial If It Helps

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JPJames Purser <purserj@ksit.dynalias.com>
Date
Apr 26, 2005, 21:36 UTC
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On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 07:18, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:52:27PM CEST, I got a letter
> where James Purser <purserj@ksit.dynalias.com> told me that...
> > I reworked the previous tutorial to take in the changes in the scripts.
> > Will make this a series of tutorials to cover all aspects. Any
> > suggestions or hints or spelling corrections would be most welcome.
> > 
> > http://ksit.dynalias.com/articles.php?s_id=46&art_id=41
> 
> Thanks for writing that! :-)
> 
> I'd vote for describing the cg-update right near cg-pull, or perhaps
> even before cg-update, as the primary method; I think it's commonly what
> people really want to do when they do cg-pull anyway.
> 
> cg-merge is _not_ like doing cg-diff | cg-patch - that's a dangerous
> thought, and not true at all. cg-diff | cg-patch will just apply the
> given diff to your working directory, but it won't record any merging
> metadata, will often get it very wrong, and you will get to all sorts of
> other troubles. Just always use cg-merge. And probably pass it -b only
> when you know what are you doing.
> 
> Thanks,

Thanks for that, I've changed it a little to point out that cg-patch should really only be used for small single file patches.

-- 
James Purser
http://ksit.dynalias.com
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