From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 04:01:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Summary of core GIT while you are away.
Message-ID: <42969B98.7070701@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk6ll2vde.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> HPA> Not "just" an installation convenience.  Right now cogito and git-core
> HPA> *conflict*.  That's why cogito really needs to be broken out from
> HPA> git-core, so git-core can be updated independently.
> 
> What I learned from this thread are these:
> 
>  (1) CGI does not need Cogito but just needs core GIT.
>  (2) Nobody said he uses Cogito on kernel.org machines.
>  (3) But Cogito is installed nevertheless.
>  (4) Installation of Cogito is done via RPM "with Makefiles and
>      spec files" and both Cogito and core GIT comes bundled in.
>  (5) I gather that there is no core GIT only RPM (nobody said
>      this explicitly in this thread, though, so I may be
>      mistaken about this point).
> 
> And that was where my comment about "just an installation
> convenience" came from.
> 
> If somebody said Cogito _is_ used on kernel.org machines, then I
> would not have said "just" nor "convenience".  That would mean
> there is a real need to have Cogito and having just core GIT
> would not be enough.

I, for one, use Cogito on the kernel.org machines.

	-hpa