[ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.17

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

		The last winter snow
		leaves but Cogito comes in
		its place, snow-white 0.17
				(*)


  After some random bugfixes I got no more bugreports so this feels
stable enough for a release. The rest of this mail will mostly be
a rehash of the 0.17rc1 announcement; the rc2-to-0.17 bugfixes were
rather dull.

  Huge amount of new features and cool stuff. The highlight is cg-switch
for switching between local branches and massive cg-patch improvements,
but there is plenty of other stuff as well. Read on for more details.

  The notable new stuff includes:

  * cg-switch - Cogito finally gives you the full convenience of
    multiple local branches in a single repository ;)
  * cg-patch -c, -C, -d - Cogito now supports cherrypicking, easy commit
    reverts and automatic committing of applied patches
  * Resumable cg-clone - if cg-clone fails in the middle of the initial
    fetch, the directory is not deleted and you do not have to start all
    over again - just cd inside and run cg-fetch and it will DTRT

  * Support for tracking rebasing branches; as long as you use cg-update
    (NOT cg-fetch + cg-merge) and won't commit local changes, Cogito
    will correctly update the branch even if it got rebased in the
    meanwhile
  * Quoting fixes - this means that Cogito should be now theoretically
    100% resilient to whitespaces and metacharacters in filenames etc.
    Note that filenames containing newlines still aren't supported and
    aren't likely to ever be. You are a loonie. Go away.
  * Radically improved cg-fetch progressbar; it still doesn't quite work
    with rsync (use cg-fetch -v -v), but I don't think that can be
    helped. The main advantage is that it will show HTTP fetch progress
    even when fetching large files (especially packs).
  * Much more sensible behaviour for cg-clean wrt. untracked directories
    (do not erase their content).

  * Significant merges speedup (but still quite some potential for
    improvement)
  * cg-* --help now by default shows only short help; use --long-help
    to see the full manual
  * cg-commit --signoff
  * cg-commit --review to review and even modify the patch you are
    committing
  * cg-commit -M to take the commit message from a file
  * bash commandline autocompletion files in contrib/
  * cg-fetch -v, cg-fetch -v -v, cg-merge -v, cg-update -v
  * cg-push -r to push a different branch (or even a specific commit)
    instead of your current branch
  * cg-rm -r for recursive directories removal
  * cg-mv trivial wrapper for git-mv
  * cg-push over HTTP
  * cg-patch -u for applying non-git patches while autoadding/removing
    files, cg-patch -pN with obvious meaning
  * cg-object-id -d for short human-readable commit string id
    (just wraps git-describe)

  * Too many minor new features to list here

  * Incompatible change - cg-log -d renamed to cg-log -D
  * Incompatible change - the post-commit hook won't be ran for all the
    merged commits anymore when you commit a merge; you can reenable
    that in .git/config, see the cg-commit documentation for details


P.S.: See us at #git @ FreeNode!
P.P.S.: (*) That means bug-free, if it wasn't obvious!
P.P.P.S.: Yes, it just occurred to me that I've forgot about the
pre-built documentation, but it's too late in the night by now. Sorry,
the next time.

  Happy hacking,

-- 
				Petr "Pasky the lousy poet" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
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