Re: first impressions to git

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:12:59PM CEST, I got a letter
where Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-git@schottelius.org> told me that...
> Hello!

Hello,

> My first impressions are:
> 
> - many commands, reminds me of arch/tla

this is one of Cogito's considerations, I try to keep the number of
commands low. It's 26 non-admin commands now, which might raise a bit
yet, but hopefully not by much. And I was thinking about coupling stuff
like cg-branch-* to a single command.

> - I am not able to upload cinit, because
>    o adding directories with files and files I want to exclude is not easily
>      possible

Just fixed, cg-init should now DTRT.

>    o it's not clear to me, how I should publish (push)
>       - scp/rsync from outside
>       - git/cogito push

Push works fine for anything but the initial push - recursive scp or
rsync of the whole repository is probably the easiest solution. It would
be nice if git-send-pack would support the initial push.

>    o excluding *.o seems not to work, neither through .gitignore nor through
>      .git/info/exlude

It should now work during the initial commit.

> - How do I check integrity of files, is signed files somehow implemented?

This was discussed on IRC, it seems signed tags were the answer you
were looking for.

> I've written some notes down in
>    http://creme.schottelius.org/~nico/temp/cogito

Pretty much all of this solved now, I think.

>    http://creme.schottelius.org/~nico/temp/git-erfahrungen
> 
> Adding directories with git-script-add (or whatever) would be nice in the way
> it adds the contents of the directory recursively.

cg-add -r implemented now.

>    o cogito could in fact be a nice frontend, after removing the current bugs
>      and if it has nicer error messaeges, which tell me WHAT I did wrong and
>      HOW to do it right.

This was one thing I kept in mind when making Cogito as well, I tried to
make its error messages as helpful as possible. It would be great if you
could point out where _Cogito_'s error messages might be more helpful
(it's tougher with Git, but I'm sure they'll love to make their error
messages more helpful as well - one thing I _really_ don't want to get
into is filtering Git's error messages and rewriting them ;-).

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