[darcs-users] Announce. vng: darcs-UI on git

[Miklos Vajna]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 06:52:27PM +0200, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
> This is a project that uses qmake; a cross platform automake-like system. All
> you need to do is call 'qmake' which will generate a Makefile
> specifically
> for you.
> I just wrote and added a README. Thanks for the heads up!

thank you for the quick response.

> this seems to just be a very very thin wrapper that still shows git output
> plus error messages and uses names like 'commit' and 'checkout' instead
> of 'record' and 'revert'.
> Vng intends to feel like darcs, using all the user research and experience
> that went into creating darcs.

yes, a different level. though, if you want to completely emulate darcs,
there are a few tricks missing :)

$ echo foo >foo
$ ./vng add foo
$ ./vng rec
hunk Initialize.h 34
+bar
Shall I record this change? (1/?)  [ynsfqadjkc], or ? for help: c
Shall I record this change? (1/3)  [ynsfqadjk], or ? for help: y
add `foo'
Shall I record this change? (2/3)  [ynsfqadjk], or ? for help: n
hunk foo 1
+foo
Shall I record this change? (3/3)  [ynsfqadjk], or ? for help: n
What is the patch name? foo
Finished recording patch `foo'

1) darcs does not ask for a hunk in a new file if you say no for the
addition

2) it seems even if i say no, the created commit contains the new file:

3) it does not ask if i want to add a long comment

> Git (the database) does not allow you to alter the chain of commits without 
> making a new commit. Which is the reason you are not seeing it in such tools.

it does, using git rebase :)

just it requires extra work and we at frugalware did not need such a
feature.

for example:

echo foo > foo.c
git add foo.c
git commit -m A
echo bar > bar.c
git add bar.c
git commit -m B

now, in case you just want to push B, but A:

git checkout -b tmp HEAD~2
git cherry-pick <sha1 of B>
git push
git checkout master
git branch -D tmp
git rebase origin

ah, and do you plan to implement vng changes?

i'm a bit sad that you depend on 20mb of lib runtime just to run a
wrapper program, but i don't want to flame :)
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