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What I miss from Cogito...

From
HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Mar 23, 2008, 17:15 UTC
Message-ID
<47E69044.3000207@zytor.com>
This much later, there are a few minor things I still miss from Cogito. 
  I believe fixing either would be quite trivial, so I thought I'd post 
a note.
1. The ability to clone into the current directory
    cg-clone had a -c option, which allowed cloning into the current
    directory.  This is particularly useful, since I keep my common
    dot files in a git repository, so all I need to do to set up a new
    machine is to clone that git repository over my empty home directory.
    Native git doesn't have any equivalent, other than:
    git clone -n .... tmp
    mv tmp/.git .
    rm -rf tmp
    git checkout HEAD
2. cg-restore
    Cogito separated "reset" and "restore".  This is a syntactic sugar
    issue, but having to type "git reset --hard -- path" makes me
    nervous, especially since hitting Enter at the wrong time could have
    serious and irrevocable consequences.
    I also note that this particular use of "git reset" is actually
    undocumented, but it seems to work.

Those are pretty much the only Cogito command I have found myself either missing or using since I made a mental note to track this stuff, a few months ago.

	-hpa
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