Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils

[sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:38:33 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> Actually, as far as I can tell, git already has a hell of a lot more 
> porcelain than pretty much any non-IDE type traditional SCM. Certainly 
> more than CVS.
> 
> Yeah, I'm not counting things like Eclipse etc. I'm talking about "plain 
> SCM" environments, ie just basic SVN or CVS. What are we missing in that 
> department? (The only thing I can think of is a diff colorizer, which some 
> prople seem to really want).

Yeah, i was thinking more along the lines of the way cogito handles
commit message editing for example, where you can change which files
are committed by editing the file list in place.  Maybe the colorized
git log viewer would be worth pulling into core as well, etc.

It's been a long time since i've looked at cogito but perhaps there
are other things in it that have proven useful and deserve to 
be pushed into core.

I guess my original comment was made because I always cringe when
i see git described as "plumbing" and only having porcelain-"ish"
commands included.

Sean