Re: cogito and remote#branch, was Re: [PATCH] Git homepage: remove all the references to Cogito

From: Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 22:16 UTC
Message-ID: <2c6b72b30710161516j5c029847r1acb3ce2d88344a1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710161139530.25221@racer.site>

On 10/16/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > I'm not sure this is good idea, Cogito is still quite frequently used
> > and it should be documented that it exists.
>
> I agree.  But maybe it could be marked as unmaintained?  Maybe someone
> steps up to maintain it.  Or, even better, comes up with a list of "this
> is what I like do regularly with cogito, but there's no easy way with core
> git" issues.

One thing that I occasionally miss is

  cg-export /path/to/directory/

And yes, I know it can be accomplished via "obscurities" like git-archive+tar (or worse git-checkout-index) but I think having an easy way to checkout to a directory could be great (and possibly with the ability to apply substitutions with the recent discussion).

Else, I am really looking forward for the option parser work to provide an easy way to list options. I found it very useful with Cogito. Also, most of the "status" commands in Cogito seemd to provide a richer default output geared towards human consumption. For example stuff like git-branch -v and git remote -v flags would have been the default for Cogito ... I think.

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Jonas Fonseca