From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:39:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle
Message-ID: <20061018213935.GX20017@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20061018165341.bcece11f.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

(Trimmed Cc' list, this is offtopic for bazaar-ng.)

Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:53:41PM CEST, I got a letter
where Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> said that...
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:46:18 +0200
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> > They could be written, but certainly not "just as easily". I'm more used
> > to coding Cogito, I find it much more convenient than hacking git's
> > shell scripts (those two may be interconnected ;), and there's plenty of
> > infrastructure in Cogito missing in Git - Cogito has more flexible
> > arguments parsing, documentation bundled with code, I could just
> > cut'n'paste the code to handle -m arguments and message editor (and most
> > of it is libified anyway) so I got that basically for free, and I think
> > Cogito beats Git hands down in code readability.
> 
> Hmmm, if I get some time over the weekend i'll take a look at porting
> them to Git.  But maybe some of the items you mentioned above deserve
> to become part of Git proper?  It would definitely be nice to see
> something like what you just did put into the hands of more users than
> just those using Cogito, and its unfortunate that the current state
> of Git code kept you from going that route.

You can use just this single tool from Cogito. ;-)

The point is, I'll of course prefer doing this stuff in Cogito while I'm
enhancing Cogito, and I'll work on Cogito while I and others will be
using it. I didn't move on to pure Git long time ago since I simply
consider its UI much inferior to Cogito's. Sure, given enough time and
work, it is fixable - but UI flaws are very hard to fix and I find it
more effective to work on Cogito for the time being, at least until I
bring it to 1.0, then I'll see.

Besides, I'm used to Cogito. :-)

So yes, current Git code definitely is a part of the reason, but it is
certainly not the main part of it.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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