I am impressed

I am impressed

[Carsten Dominik]

Dear all,

I would like to express my satisfaction with the quality
of bug reports and feature request I have received recently.
It is becoming very clear now that more and more people
really "get" Org, a fact that is reflected by the many
requests I have seen, most of which totally make sense
and play along nicely with the philosophy and structure
of Org.

I am also excited about the number and quality of patches
I have received lately.  These indicate that more
people are diving into the code and actually manage to
understand it.

In order to help this process further along, I have
started to drastically improve my commit messages in the git
repository.  I hope that these will serve as a doorway to
let interested reader in on the internals of Org.  The
commit messages enhance each commit with context of the
functionality addressed, and with reasons why the
implementation of the change is as it is.  Credit in
this realm goes to Bernt Hansen is continues to patiently
educate me about the secrets of git, and how to
use it properly.

To those of you playing with Git, I also highly recommend a
beautiful document[1] written by - who else? - John Wiegley.
This document will way helping you to wrap your head
around the strange but beautiful and incredibly powerful
world of Git.

Thanks to all of you.  My hour for today is over, back tomorrow :-)

- Carsten

[1] http://www.newartisans.com/blog_files/git.from.bottom.up.php

Re: I am impressed

[Richard Riley]

I would like to suggest the following links for those interested in
using emacs itself as an interface to git - the way is not as
straightforward as it might be and the competing interfaces cover
different subsets of GIT functionality and hopefully these links will
save people some time.

List of Emacs interfaces : http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Git

Of these Magit is the most comprehensive and the easiest to use as far
as branching goes:

http://zagadka.vm.bytemark.co.uk/magit/magit.html#Branching

The most straightforward was, from my perspective, emacs-git 

http://tsgates.cafe24.com/git/git-emacs.html

But a bug in the status display meant I had to stop using it and
instead moved to using DVC. Your mileage might vary.

Unfortunately the build in VC in emacs 23 which, while supporting GIT to
a degree, does not appear support branching.

DVC is coming along:

http://richardriley.net/default/projects/emacs/dvc/tutorial/index

And for those looking for a typical GIT workflow example in order to
understand GIT's operations then I found this to be amongst the best:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html

In your Linux repositories you will also find gitk and giggle which are
nice front ends to examine progress when playing with GIT .

GIT is a wonderful, if slightly awkward at times, system.

regards and best of luck,

r.


Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to express my satisfaction with the quality
> of bug reports and feature request I have received recently.
> It is becoming very clear now that more and more people
> really "get" Org, a fact that is reflected by the many
> requests I have seen, most of which totally make sense
> and play along nicely with the philosophy and structure
> of Org.
>
> I am also excited about the number and quality of patches
> I have received lately.  These indicate that more
> people are diving into the code and actually manage to
> understand it.
>
> In order to help this process further along, I have
> started to drastically improve my commit messages in the git
> repository.  I hope that these will serve as a doorway to
> let interested reader in on the internals of Org.  The
> commit messages enhance each commit with context of the
> functionality addressed, and with reasons why the
> implementation of the change is as it is.  Credit in
> this realm goes to Bernt Hansen is continues to patiently
> educate me about the secrets of git, and how to
> use it properly.
>
> To those of you playing with Git, I also highly recommend a
> beautiful document[1] written by - who else? - John Wiegley.
> This document will way helping you to wrap your head
> around the strange but beautiful and incredibly powerful
> world of Git.
>
> Thanks to all of you.  My hour for today is over, back tomorrow :-)
>
> - Carsten
>
> [1] http://www.newartisans.com/blog_files/git.from.bottom.up.php
>
>
>
>
>
>
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 important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.  ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations:  Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970

Re: I am impressed

[Bernt Hansen]

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:

> In your Linux repositories you will also find gitk and giggle which are
> nice front ends to examine progress when playing with GIT .

And git gui which you can use to create commits.

-Bernt

Re: I am impressed

[Richard Riley]

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> In your Linux repositories you will also find gitk and giggle which are
>> nice front ends to examine progress when playing with GIT .
>
> And git gui which you can use to create commits.
>
> -Bernt

That's a nice functional tool too. giggle is amongst the best for gui a branch
browser, but git-gui is nice and consistent in what it does. There is a
lot of confusion out there with regards to "add" and "stage"
unfortunately and it deals nicely with that terminology side.

-- 
 important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.  ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations:  Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970