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Re: [cogito-0.18.2] Documentation/Code Mismatch: cg-switch -l

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MLMark Lawrence <nomad@null.net>
Date
May 27, 2008, 08:04 UTC
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<20080527080417.GA32209@lifebook.rekudos.net>
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> On Mon May 26, 2008 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > Mark Lawrence wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I don't know if this is a bug or just my understanding, but I'm having
> > >trouble matching the behaviour of "cg-switch -l" with the documentation.
> > >
> > 
> > Cogito became officially unmaintained a very long time ago (late 2006?)
> > and will almost certainly not work properly with any half-recent version
> > of git. Don't use it.
> 
> Oh. That's only <sarcasm>slightly annoying</sarcasm> to learn now, given
> that I've spent the past two years learning and converting my projects
> over to cogito :/ Could somebody *please* update the cogito web page at
> http://git.or.cz/cogito/ and put a big (maybe even blinking) notice
> informing people of this?
> 
> Bit of a shame that it's died though, because I appreciated the simpler
> interface (and some of the output I find nicer).
> 
> On a more practical note, am I likely to suffer any issues using pure
> git on repos created with cogito?

And a related question: is there any kind of cogito replacement that provides a simplified interface? As far as versioning tools go, git is quite low-level...

Thanks, Mark.

-- 
Mark Lawrence
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  1. Mark LawrenceMay 27, 2008
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  3. Ittay DrorMay 27, 2008
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