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

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: May 27, 2008, 08:11 UTC
Message-ID: <998860CC-E94E-4C61-964A-0CB9F44074C1@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080527080417.GA32209@lifebook.rekudos.net>

El 27/5/2008, a las 10:04, Mark Lawrence escribió:

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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...

The reason why cogito fell out of maintenance is that git itself has evolved from the hard-core, close-to-the-metal tool that it was in the early days to be usable by mere mortals. What specific features/ workflows of cogito are you missing? It's likely that modern git already has an equivalent that is just as easy to use.

Wincent