From: Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-git@schottelius.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:12:59 GMT
Subject: first impressions to git
Message-ID: <20050918111259.GA10882@schottelius.org>

Hello!

I was testing git for my needs with the following ideas in my mind:

- it must be easy to use
- documentation must be easy to find, understand and remember
- it should be fast
- optionally using the filesystem as a database would be nice

My first impressions are:

- many commands, reminds me of arch/tla
- nice idea with .git
- uses the filesystem
- using git directly seems to be more work than necessary
- cogito looks like a good frontend, but has some drawbacks
- it's not clear which protocols for pull/push are supported
- the documentation is not in sync with the programm (0.99.5 vs. 0.99.6)
- gitweb.cgi could be better documentated and supported
   recursive directories when using $projects_list = $projectroot;
   and splitting configuration completly outside of gitweb.cgi would be nice
   (having .gitweb in the same directory as gitweb.cgi for instance)
- I am not able to upload cinit, because
   o adding directories with files and files I want to exclude is not easily
     possible

   o it's not clear to me, how I should publish (push)
      - scp/rsync from outside
      - git/cogito push
   o excluding *.o seems not to work, neither through .gitignore nor through
     .git/info/exlude
- How do I check integrity of files, is signed files somehow implemented?

I've written some notes down in
   http://creme.schottelius.org/~nico/temp/cogito
   http://creme.schottelius.org/~nico/temp/git-erfahrungen

Adding directories with git-script-add (or whatever) would be nice in the way
it adds the contents of the directory recursively.

That's it for the first impression, I would be happy for any hints and critic
if I did something 'really wrong' with git/cogito.

My current position to git/cogito is that using could be possible, but not
as comfortable (from a developers view) as it is with monotone.

Sincerly,

Nico

P.S.: These are mostly the negative things, I've to say that
   o gitweb.cgi looks very beautiful
   o git es very fast
   o cogito could in fact be a nice frontend, after removing the current bugs
     and if it has nicer error messaeges, which tell me WHAT I did wrong and
     HOW to do it right.

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