Re: Things that surprise naive users

[Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>]

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On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Steve Frécinaux wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 16:55 -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> > 1. If your organization has a bunch of different projects, and there's 
> >    some central location holding the upstream that people regularly pull 
> >    from, there's no way to abbreviate this parent directory. (Equivalent 
> >    of CVSROOT environment variable)
> > 
> >    I.e., we've got file-server:/var/git/<project>.git at my work, with 
> >    dozens of projects, and you have to give the whole thing to git clone 
> >    each time. 
> 
> export GITROOT=file-server:/var/git
> git-clone $GITROOT/project.git
> 
> git doesn't enforce that but you can still do it with some shell karma.
> 
> BTW as far as I know no other scm than CVS provides this kind of thing,
> and it's more often seen as a defect than an advantage. For instance, a
> novice which had to checkout a CVS project from sourceforge and another
> from cvs.gnome.org and another from... wasn't helped at all. SVN has it
> much simpler (understandable) by just providing a URL for checkouts.

It's counterproductive to require both a "root" and a "module" if there 
isn't any sort of commonality, but it's useful to be able to have a 
default. Besides CVS, arch also has something of the sort. I haven't used 
anything else in a corporate setting (where most of the things you check 
out are from the same place).

> > 2. There's no easy way to tell that you've made commits that you haven't 
> >    pushed upstream. In fact, it's impossible to tell when disconnected 
> >    whether you've pushed everything. This needs some command to report it,
> >    and also for push to update the fetch sides of remote heads it updates.
> 
> I surprised myself doing so:
>   git-push $remote
>   git-fetch $remote
> given that the remote in question pushes master, and pulls into $remote.
> Maybe such a thing (in the idea) should be done implicitely.

I mentioned it a while back, but never got around to implementing it, 
mostly because it's all in shell scripts (or was).

	-Daniel
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