Re: first impressions to git
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
- Date
- Sep 18, 2005, 14:54 UTC
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- <20050918145434.GA22391@pasky.or.cz>
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- <20050918111259.GA10882@schottelius.org>
Dear diary, on Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:12:59PM CEST, I got a letter where Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-git@schottelius.org> told me that...
> Hello!
Hello,
> My first impressions are: > > - many commands, reminds me of arch/tla
this is one of Cogito's considerations, I try to keep the number of commands low. It's 26 non-admin commands now, which might raise a bit yet, but hopefully not by much. And I was thinking about coupling stuff like cg-branch-* to a single command.
> - I am not able to upload cinit, because > o adding directories with files and files I want to exclude is not easily > possible
Just fixed, cg-init should now DTRT.
> o it's not clear to me, how I should publish (push) > - scp/rsync from outside > - git/cogito push
Push works fine for anything but the initial push - recursive scp or rsync of the whole repository is probably the easiest solution. It would be nice if git-send-pack would support the initial push.
> o excluding *.o seems not to work, neither through .gitignore nor through > .git/info/exlude
It should now work during the initial commit.
> - How do I check integrity of files, is signed files somehow implemented?
This was discussed on IRC, it seems signed tags were the answer you were looking for.
> I've written some notes down in > http://creme.schottelius.org/~nico/temp/cogito
Pretty much all of this solved now, I think.
> 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.
cg-add -r implemented now.
> 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.
This was one thing I kept in mind when making Cogito as well, I tried to make its error messages as helpful as possible. It would be great if you could point out where _Cogito_'s error messages might be more helpful (it's tougher with Git, but I'm sure they'll love to make their error messages more helpful as well - one thing I _really_ don't want to get into is filtering Git's error messages and rewriting them ;-).
-- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox