# [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.16.2 3 messages from 2005-12-14 to 2005-12-15. Participants: Petr Baudis, Alan Chandler. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2844 ## Petr Baudis, 2005-12-14 23:10 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.16.2 Message-ID: <20051214231019.GK22159@pasky.or.cz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20051214231019.GK22159%40pasky.or.cz ``` 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, -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't. ``` ## Alan Chandler, 2005-12-15 06:57 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.16.2 Message-ID: <200512150657.53622.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200512150657.53622.alan%40chandlerfamily.org.uk In-Reply-To: <20051214231019.GK22159@pasky.or.cz> ``` On Wednesday 14 December 2005 23:10, Petr Baudis wrote: ... > 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". ;-) 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. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust. ``` ## Petr Baudis, 2005-12-15 08:56 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.16.2 Message-ID: <20051215085640.GP22159@pasky.or.cz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20051215085640.GP22159%40pasky.or.cz In-Reply-To: <200512150657.53622.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> ``` Dear diary, on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:57:52AM CET, I got a letter where Alan Chandler said that... > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 23:10, Petr Baudis wrote: > ... > > 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". ;-) > > Note sure what your Debian dilemma is. 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. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't. ```