Re: core-git and porcelains

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Oct 11, 2006, 15:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20061011150842.GA31298@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <egivn8$5mf$1@sea.gmane.org>

Pazu <pazu@pazu.com.br> wrote:

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> I'm a newcomer to git, and for the last few days, I've been struggling 
> to learn how to better use git in my day to day. One particular thing 
> that has been puzzling me is how much git is self-sufficient, and how 
> much I should depend on porcelains.
> 
> Apparently, I'm not alone in this: 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/6194/focus=6194
> 
> The above post was made about three months ago; where things stand now? 
> Do you feel that git-core should suffice for most developers, or should 
> I really look into something like Cogito?
> 
> Depending on the project, my git usage would fit one of two profiles. I 
> run some standalone projects, where I'm the sole developer. I was 
> looking into using cogito for this scenario, but one thing that baffled 
> me is how git-core and cogito use different branch representations.
> 
> For the larger part of my day, however, I'm looking into using git as a 
> personal tool in a very large corporate project; This project is 
> currently controlled using subversion, and my idea is to use git as a 
> 'staging' system, where I work (possibly offline) before pushing changes 
> to the upstream (remote, slow as hell) subversion repository. Here, 
> git-svn seems to be my best friend.
> 
> Any advice to this poor newbie?

I would just stick with core Git. I haven't used Cogito in almost a year so I can't say what I'm missing there, but core Git works very well for all of my needs. I use it in a lot of different projects, some which require git-svn, others which require some bastard git-svn-workalike for non-SVN systems, and others which are just Git projects and don't have to cooperate with others.

Git has come a long way in terms of user interface. It still has a few rough edges but I think that there are less rough edges on core Git's command line user interface than there are on the Subversion command line client or the CVS command line client.

-- 
Shawn.