From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: core-git and porcelains Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:08:42 -0400 Message-ID: <20061011150842.GA31298@spearce.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 11 17:13:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXfhZ-0007r0-74 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:08:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965218AbWJKPIy (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:08:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965226AbWJKPIy (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:08:54 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:18610 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965218AbWJKPIx (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:08:53 -0400 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GXfhM-0003qs-Cv; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:08:44 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 00FE920FB00; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:08:42 -0400 (EDT) To: Pazu Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Pazu wrote: > I'm a newcomer to git, and for the last few days, I've been struggling > to learn how to better use git in my day to day. One particular thing > that has been puzzling me is how much git is self-sufficient, and how > much I should depend on porcelains. > > Apparently, I'm not alone in this: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/6194/focus=6194 > > The above post was made about three months ago; where things stand now? > Do you feel that git-core should suffice for most developers, or should > I really look into something like Cogito? > > Depending on the project, my git usage would fit one of two profiles. I > run some standalone projects, where I'm the sole developer. I was > looking into using cogito for this scenario, but one thing that baffled > me is how git-core and cogito use different branch representations. > > For the larger part of my day, however, I'm looking into using git as a > personal tool in a very large corporate project; This project is > currently controlled using subversion, and my idea is to use git as a > 'staging' system, where I work (possibly offline) before pushing changes > to the upstream (remote, slow as hell) subversion repository. Here, > git-svn seems to be my best friend. > > Any advice to this poor newbie? I would just stick with core Git. I haven't used Cogito in almost a year so I can't say what I'm missing there, but core Git works very well for all of my needs. I use it in a lot of different projects, some which require git-svn, others which require some bastard git-svn-workalike for non-SVN systems, and others which are just Git projects and don't have to cooperate with others. Git has come a long way in terms of user interface. It still has a few rough edges but I think that there are less rough edges on core Git's command line user interface than there are on the Subversion command line client or the CVS command line client. -- Shawn.