From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: [cogito-0.18.2] Documentation/Code Mismatch: cg-switch -l Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:04:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20080527080417.GA32209@lifebook.rekudos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 27 10:05:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K0uBp-0001kL-HA for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 10:05:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755789AbYE0IEf (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2008 04:04:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754563AbYE0IEe (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2008 04:04:34 -0400 Received: from lawrence.nine.ch ([217.150.250.121]:37123 "EHLO lawrence.nine.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757243AbYE0IE1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2008 04:04:27 -0400 Received: from 217-162-110-104.dclient.hispeed.ch ([217.162.110.104] helo=lifebook.rekudos.net) by lawrence.nine.ch with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K0uAR-0007bx-JP for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 10:04:24 +0200 Received: from mlawren by lifebook.rekudos.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K0uAL-0000EH-Ps for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 10:04:17 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 217.162.110.104 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: git@vger.kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: nomad@null.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7-deb (2006-10-05) on lawrence.nine.ch X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=1.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7-deb X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:23:22 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on lawrence.nine.ch) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > On Mon May 26, 2008 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > > Mark Lawrence wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I don't know if this is a bug or just my understanding, but I'm having > > >trouble matching the behaviour of "cg-switch -l" with the documentation. > > > > > > > Cogito became officially unmaintained a very long time ago (late 2006?) > > and will almost certainly not work properly with any half-recent version > > of git. Don't use it. > > Oh. That's only slightly annoying to learn now, given > that I've spent the past two years learning and converting my projects > over to cogito :/ Could somebody *please* update the cogito web page at > http://git.or.cz/cogito/ and put a big (maybe even blinking) notice > informing people of this? > > Bit of a shame that it's died though, because I appreciated the simpler > interface (and some of the output I find nicer). > > On a more practical note, am I likely to suffer any issues using pure > git on repos created with cogito? And a related question: is there any kind of cogito replacement that provides a simplified interface? As far as versioning tools go, git is quite low-level... Thanks, Mark. -- Mark Lawrence