Re: Git BOF notes

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

  Hi,

Dear diary, on Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 02:17:48AM CEST, I got a letter
where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> said that...
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > Yes, there is some blury stuff, but I think it's rather a sign that
> > something is missing in the core Git porcelain. git-init-db is lowlevel
> > and I think in 99% of the cases you are going to do an initial commit
> > right after anyway, so you might as well just get git-init which does it
> > for you (something akin cg-init ;).
> 
> Think "changed templates".

  it may be that I'm just tired, but I don't see what you mean, sorry.

> And also think "setup a remote repository", especially "setup a remote
> HTTP repository".

  Of course. Currently you need to tinker with environment variables,
then with hooks, possibly with permissions and stuff to make the
repository shared... Think cg-admin-setuprepo. ;-)

> And also think "start a new repository with only a _part_ of the current 
> files". There are plenty reasons -- in addition to separation of concepts 
> -- not to commit straight after initializing a repository.

  So what _do_ you do if you don't commit straight?

  Of course sometimes you don't want to add everything, and that should
still be possible to do (cg-init has a switch for that).

> > I think we still tell users to use git-update-index to mark resolved 
> > conflicts, [...]
> 
> I don't know, but I had the impression we'd tell them "resolve your 
> conflicts, and then do git-commit -a". Which is good enough.

  My comment there was based on the jdl's presentation at OLS. Sorry if
in docs we are saying other things, I don't tend to lookat Git porcelain
documentation. ;-)

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