Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.8 (former git-pasky, big changes!)
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- Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
- Date
- Apr 26, 2005, 22:21 UTC
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- <20050426222119.GA19742@elf.ucw.cz>
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- <20050426032422.GQ13467@pasky.ji.cz>
Hi!
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> here goes Cogito-0.8, my SCMish layer over Linus Torvald's git tree > history tracker. This package was formerly called git-pasky, however > this release brings big changes. The usage is significantly different, > as well as some basic concepts; the history changed again (hopefully the > last time?) because of fixing dates of some old commits. The .git/ > directory layout changed too. > > Upgrading through pull is possible, but rather difficult and requires > some intimacy with both git, git-pasky and Cogito. So probably the best > way to go is to just get cogito-0.8 tarball at > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/ > > or > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/ > > build and install it, and do > > cg-clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git > > > > 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.
It seems to need libcurl-dev... installed.
Error handling could certainly be improved:
pavel@amd:/data/l/cogito$ cg-clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git ./cg-clone: line 22: cg-init: command not found pavel@amd:/data/l/cogito$ PATH=/data/l/cogito:$PATH pavel@amd:/data/l/cogito$ cg-clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git cg-clone: cogito/ already exists
Pavel
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