[ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.16.2

  Hello,

  this is Cogito version 0.16.2, the next stable release of the
human-friendly version control UI for the Linus' GIT tool. Share
and enjoy at:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/

  Very few changes since the last release - one testcase, trivial fix,
documentation improvements. And one important bugfix! If you are a
cg-clean user, certainly upgrade - cg-clean in 0.16.1 had a serious bug
which would cause it remove all subdirectories when running from the
source root with the -d option - which is rather nasty if you have any
uncommitted local changes there.

  Now we finally have a testcase for cg-clean, and the cg-clean code was
further tweaked to reduce potential for any more code mistakes. The
major reason for both 0.16.1 and 0.16.2 were cg-clean bugs, but
hopefully no more problems are waiting for us in this realm, and the
rest of Cogito seems to be thankfully pretty stable throughout the 0.16
line, so I expect things to finally calm down a bit here.

  I spent the last two hours making a large patch fixing all potentially
whitespace-unsafe Cogito code, but I've decided to keep it for 0.17 only
- Cogito meeting with whitespaces is a very rare occasion, and such
a large patch is bound to contain some new bugs coming from trivial
mistakes and such.

  Also, Cogito is now very ineffective when cloning big-packed
repositories over the git protocol or over ssh, since git-fetch-pack
unpacks the objects on the local side, which bogs things down a lot and
makes the repository grow into enormous proportions - I'm not yet sure
if I will backport the fix to 0.16 since I want to be maximally careful
not to gravely break anything again and keep 0.16 as stable as possible.
(Hm. Call this "the Debian dilemma". ;-)

  The new stuff since 0.16.1 is:

Pavel Roskin:
      cg-clean test
      cg-clean: be safer by running everything from relpath

Petr Baudis:
      cg-clean testcase: Minor tidyup
      cg-clean testcase: Clarify description
      Fixed cg-clean removing ALL subdirs when invoked from root
            (Discovered and originally fixed by Pavel Roskin.)
      Fix cg-status reporting every merge as a squash-merge
      Improve cg-admin-setuprepo documentation
      In the cg-commit text, give the user hint on how to abort
      cogito-0.16.2

  Happy hacking,

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 23:10, Petr Baudis wrote: ...

Note sure what your Debian dilemma is. Right now, Debian (Unstable) seems broken, because cogito is still at 0.16.0 and hickups on the bash 3.1 issue discussed in an earlier thread. Having updated to the debian version from my earlier self built version earlier this week, I immediately found I couldn't commit.

After waiting a day for the next release to filter through and it not doing so, I had to rebuild my own version again - and as far as I am aware, despite a new version of git-core arriving on my "update" this morning, there has been no new cogito package.

Dear diary, on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:57:52AM CET, I got a letter where Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> said that...

Well, I meant this in a general sense - in the stable Debian branch, there's also this dilemma about how grave bugfixes to still merge, without risking another bug induced by those.