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

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PMPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Date
Apr 26, 2005, 22:21 UTC
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<20050426222119.GA19742@elf.ucw.cz>
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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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  1. Petr BaudisApr 26, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisApr 26, 2005
  3. Mike TahtApr 26, 2005
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  5. Paul JacksonApr 26, 2005
  6. Martin AtukundaApr 26, 2005
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  8. Jeff GarzikApr 26, 2005
  9. Daniel BarkalowApr 26, 2005
  10. Al ViroApr 26, 2005
  11. Don't use commit-id in buildingDaniel Barkalow, Apr 26, 2005
  12. Philip PokornyApr 26, 2005
  13. Petr BaudisApr 26, 2005
  14. Morten WelinderApr 26, 2005
  15. Pavel MachekApr 26, 2005

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