Re: cogito and remote#branch, was Re: [PATCH] Git homepage: remove all the references to Cogito

On 10/16/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Petr Baudis wrote:

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I'm not sure this is good idea, Cogito is still quite frequently used
and it should be documented that it exists.

I agree.  But maybe it could be marked as unmaintained?  Maybe someone
steps up to maintain it.  Or, even better, comes up with a list of "this
is what I like do regularly with cogito, but there's no easy way with core
git" issues.

One thing that I occasionally miss is

  cg-export /path/to/directory/

And yes, I know it can be accomplished via "obscurities" like
git-archive+tar (or worse git-checkout-index) but I think having
an easy way to checkout to a directory could be great (and possibly
with the ability to apply substitutions with the recent discussion).

Else, I am really looking forward for the option parser work to provide
an easy way to list options. I found it very useful with Cogito.
Also, most of the "status" commands in Cogito seemd to provide a richer
default output geared towards human consumption. For example stuff like
git-branch -v and git remote -v flags would have been the default for
Cogito ... I think.

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Jonas Fonseca