Eating your own dog food...

bain — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:16:05 +0530

Just read "As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood" " and came to know about the phrase "Eating one's own dog food".

And as it turns out me is eating my own dog food as well....
There was a couple of week gap in teamgit development due to a fact that i am helping out a friend doing some Qt coding for his company. Thats too much Qt already in daytime.

But with that i am kinda distanced from the teamgit code itself (i forget fast).
On top of that, last week when i decided to upgrade to latest 2.6.28 and got interested in btrfs. Guess what i had no trouble following latest linux topic trees for both these, all from inside teamGit.

And i am quite impressed with myself. That's rare !!!

There are few operations i still have to go back to commandline (the advanced guification thing works well for most as well but not perfect yet), particularly "git merge" and any conflicts. So thats on my next top priority now.

Foss.in workout fails to make me thinner

bain — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:05:05 +0530

But it was quite successful in making teamgit a bit fatter !!!

We already have a patch adding git rebase to the backend, thanks Rejesh Kosla.
http://groups.google.com/group/teamgit/browse_thread/thread/c1f02b47a0917264
We also added patches to establish a baseline framework for the UI upstream. And had quite a good hour long hack session on finding different alternatives for the proposed UI.
http://gitorious.org/projects/teamgit/repos/mainline/commits/ac94c3fdf5c70818d25172bfc4e8e3063b3fc8fb

Some of the interfaces discussed had really revolutionary ideas from your truly , like reimplementing the listbox paint function (;-) ) to implement the commit list and its manipulations. Fortunately there were saner ideas tossed out, like using a QTreeView with zero indentation or using stylesheets in QListBox

We finally settled on taking the ui forward with a plain QListView with Rajagopal confidant about using stylesheets with LG liking the idea of grouping the squashed commits with a color background. All in all a very productive day for teamgit. With couple of new developers appearing on the mailing list.

v0.0.8

bain — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:36:43 +0530

I have tagged the repo with v0.0.8!!!
You can now get the .deb from ubuntu intrepid ppa
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bain-devslashzero/ubuntu intrepid main
package name is teamgit.
The main project website is http://www.devslashzero.com/teamgit

There are many small changes and feature adds
you can take a look at repo here
http://gitorious.org/projects/teamgit/repos/mainline

The major feature add however is addition on **Advanced** menu.

This menu is constructed on the fly parsing output of 'git help --all'
Then when you click on a menu item it issues git help <command> ,
parses the manpage and presents its options in a guified form.
It even display nice tooltips describing the option.

This is just a first stage of the planned feature. Ultimately this advanced
menu will be just a 'Admin' feature.
People will be able to save the selected options and parameters as 'Receipies'
and can cook a nice receipes package particular to their needs/organisations.

The feature is not really complete yet, but you can issue simple
commands using it.
Ther _are_bugs_ but i couldn't wait to showcase this nifty feature.

Check out the screenshot
http://www.devslashzero.com/images/teamgitscreenshots/screenshot-teamgit22nov.png

Intrepid ppa repository available

bain — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:08:06 +0530

I have created intrepid personal package archive repository at ubuntu launchpad. Now you can install teamgit 0.0.4 using apt system on intrepid.
Head on to teamgit/download for instructions.

teammsysGit anyone?

bain — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:02:04 +0530

Just for fun i removed kpty (this was the only bit which was guaranteed not to work with win32.
And downloaded and compiled it on qt4.4.3-win32-mingw.
Fired it up :o !! i saw the ui... well not too much surprise there, its qt after all,
But then gave it path for msysgit binary and that worked as well.... Hurra!!!
Tested setting up user name/email, works. Tested with teamgit repo almost everything i tried worked.
Tested 'send patch by email', heck it even fired up outlook express.

Damn QT is the best toolkit i have used ever.
Patches are upstream, you can compile current teamgit on windows

v0.0.4 is out

bain — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:27:05 +0530

I tagged the repo as v0.0.4

Here are changes since v0.0.3
Abhijit Bhopatkar (36):
      Added .desktop file and icons to install target
      Added support files for running checkinstall
      Don't depend on qt 4.4.1 we can do with just 4.4
      Changed the signoff check box label
      Added auto "add sign off line" to commit
      Added auto sign off option to general settings
      Added auto sign off option in settings
      Change libqt-core to libqtcore4 for intrepid in checkinstall script
      Make default new project directory ~/linux-2.6
      Add base dir selection for new project dialog
      Current project is no longer used
      Add base dir selection to the new projects dialog
      Fix new project stuff to open up correct repo after clone
      Cleaned up icons directory
      Removed unneeded icon pngs
      Qdevelop cleaned up the project fine
      Added git blam support to backend gitprocess
      Added file annotation support with commit search
      Make sure first column is visible when searching
      Scrool annotation text box to top after receiving annotaion
      Cleanup: we no longer use mutex
      Bring annotated file to front when received
      FIX: Open dialog failed to refresh the UI

teamGit in fedora

bain — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:31:08 +0530

Fedora seems to have picked up on teamgit announce,
that means a rpm for teamgit is ready
hopefully they can upgrade that fast when i announce 0.0.5 shortly.

Quck primer on teamGit's interface

bain — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:34:00 +0530

Since i didn't get time to do proper docs yet i thought i will put very quick and dirty piece here to help testers make sense of teamgit.

Starting:
you can start teamgit from git repo and it will work with that,
you can change the repo from open command in file menu,
if working dir is not git repo it will fall back to last opened repo.

In general actions work on the selected item or don't do anything (i need to add helpfull messages here).
e.g.
checkout will checkout whatever is selected branch,tag or commit.
cherry-pick will try to pick whatever commit is selected,

to view log other than current log
just d-click file to see log belonging to that file in current branch
d-click branch or tag to see log for those refs

if there are uncommited changes they will show up in unstaged files pane on left side,
click on file will show the diff
d-click hunk inside diff will stage that hunk for commit
d-click file will stage the file
d-click on staged hunk/file will unstage it.

once you'r happy with stagged stuff you can commit and enter commit message.

You can set your username/email in setting dialog that will be used by git (it changes global preferences for git)
Don't hesitate to mail me anything, even if its just plane teamgit sucks email.

to add new files click on show-untracked button and the pane will show all files not tracked by git in the directory.
d-click will stage the file for inclusion in next commit.

v0.0.3 released

bain — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:53:02 +0530

Just tagged the repo with v0.0.3 [github.org]
We are yet closer to milestone 1
Hope to finish all the stuff for m1 by v0.0.5

Also making a freshmeat announcement with this release, i think its ready for public consumption now.

Delayed

bain — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:57:00 +0530

First few tests out in wild (with few friends and family) showed that i am such a pathetic ui designer.
I have delayed the release till i fix few of the obvious usability issues.
e.g. Making open button first one rather than new, since thats the one you should be using most often. Infact i will be moving "new" to tools rather than file.