Re: gitco - replacement for cvsco

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:

> As a big fan of cvsco and friends, I admit I often miss that one in
> git repos.
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:08:02PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> However, one problem with that, compared to 'cvsco', is that
>> 'git-reset --hard' does not tell me tell me which files were deleted
>> and which file were restored.  May I suggest a --verbose or similar?
>
> Here is a small change to your script that does just that.  It is far
> from perfect:
>
> - uses cogito and not plain git.  Not sure how to achieve the same
> compact layout with plain git - both cogito and stgit forge this type
> of output themselves.  Would be great to get it directly from git
> itself...
>
> - not very efficient, and not very secure, since we scan the tree once
> for reporting and then once for deleting the files, leaving a window
> where files could be created by another program after the cg-status
> call, and then removed by git-reset.
>
> You've been warned :)
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # gitco - cruel checkout.  Discards everything that has not been
> # committed, and checkout missing files.
> git clean -d -x
> cg status -w
> git reset --hard

jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$ gitco
Removing foo
M Makefile.am
! gendocs.sh
jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$

Perfect!

Thanks,
Simon