From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.8 (former git-pasky, big changes!) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:24:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20050426032422.GQ13467@pasky.ji.cz> Reply-To: pasky@ucw.cz, git@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 26 05:20:07 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQGcA-00056p-BW for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:19:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261310AbVDZDYv (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:24:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261317AbVDZDYu (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:24:50 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:22764 "HELO machine.sinus.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261263AbVDZDYZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:24:25 -0400 Received: (qmail 5507 invoked by uid 2001); 26 Apr 2005 03:24:23 -0000 To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hello, here goes Cogito-0.8, my SCMish layer over Linus Torvald's git tree history tracker. This package was formerly called git-pasky, however this release brings big changes. The usage is significantly different, as well as some basic concepts; the history changed again (hopefully the last time?) because of fixing dates of some old commits. The .git/ directory layout changed too. Upgrading through pull is possible, but rather difficult and requires some intimacy with both git, git-pasky and Cogito. So probably the best way to go is to just get cogito-0.8 tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/ or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/ build and install it, and do cg-clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git Yes, this is a huge change. No, I don't expect any further changes of similar scale. I think the new interface is significantly simpler _and_ cleaner than the old one. First for the concept changes. There is no concept of tracking anymore; you just do either cg-pull to just fetch the changes, or cg-update to fetch them as well as merge them to your working tree. Even more significant change is that Cogito does not directly support local branches anymore - git fork is gone, you just go to new directory and do cg-init ~/path/to/your/original/repository (or cg-clone, which will try to create a new subdirectory for itself). This now acts as a separate repository, except that it is hardlinked with the original one; therefore you get no additional disk usage. To get new changes to it from the original repository, you have to cg-update origin. If you decide you want to merge back, go to the original repository, add your new one as a branch and pull/update from it. As for the interface changes, you will probably find out on your own; cg-help should be of some help. All the scripts now start with 'cg-', and you should ignore the 'cg-X*' ones. The non-trivial mapping is: git addremote -> cg-branch-add git lsremote -> cg-branch-ls git patch -> cg-mkpatch git apply -> cg-patch git lsobj -> cg-admin-lsobj Commands that are gone: git fork git track New commands: cg-clone cg-update Of course other changes include various bugfixes, and latest Linus' stuff (although we do not make use of Linus' tags yet). Note that I don't know how many time will I have for hacking Cogito until the next Sunday/Monday. I hope I will get some time to at least apply bugfixes etc, but I don't know how much more will I be able to do. You would make me a happy man if you could please port your pending patches from git-pasky to Cogito; I promise to apply them and I hope there isn't going to be another so big change in the foreseeable future, which would cause major conflicts for your patches etc. Note that I cc'd LKML since it is going to break stuff for anyone using git-pasky now (apologies for that; it won't happen another time). Please try not to keep it in the cc' list unless it is really relevant. Have fun, -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor