Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.8 (former git-pasky, big changes!)

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 26, 2005, 12:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20050426122304.GD18971@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <426DBF94.3010502@timesys.com>

Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 06:12:04AM CEST, I got a letter where Mike Taht <mike.taht@timesys.com> told me that...

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> >  Yes, this is a huge change. No, I don't expect any further changes of
> >similar scale. I think the new interface is significantly simpler _and_
> >cleaner than the old one.
> 
> Heh. Another huge change would be moving the top level directories 
> around a bit.
> 
> 
> bindings  COPYING  git.spec  Makefile  programs  README.reference  tests
> contrib   doc      include   po        README    src  VERSION
> 
> Leaving fixing the makefiles aside as an exercise for the interested 
> reader... that's:

Actually, I've been thinking about this, but I think we just don't need it *yet*.

And by the time we will need to make things more hierarchical, we will hopefully have some way to deal with renames sensibly. We need something for that too - either something ultra-smart as Linus describes, or explicit renames, but merging not working across renames makes them total nightmare.

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