Re: Barebone Porcelain. Where to stop?

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 18, 2005, 10:22 UTC
Message-ID: <tnx3bqcxvkm.fsf@arm.com>
In-Reply-To: <42DB32F1.5020900@gmail.com>

Bryan Larsen <bryan.larsen@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Any lack of porcelain momentum is probably due to git having better
> documentation than the current porcelains, such as cogito and stacked
> git.  The documentation, like tutorial.txt and Jeff Garzik's git
> kernel howto give the impression that most kernel folks use git
> instead of cogito.
>
> I personally think that the cogito interface and stacked git
> interfaces are much nicer than git's, and would like to see these two
> tools achieve some momentum.

I don't see git going towards stgit at all. Indeed, it gets closer to cogito but I still like cogito over plain git since it's easier to use (my goal, though, is to add pull/clone commands to stgit so that one doesn't need to rely on directly using other tools).

I am aware that, probably, the biggest problem with stgit is the documentation (and also a lack of regression tests). I hope I will find some time soon to write a tutorial and improve the command line help. I will setup a wiki in the next few days so that others can easily fix/update the documentation.

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Catalin