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  36 <h1>Cogito - Human-suitable Interface for Git</h1>
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  38 <div style="float: right"><table class="releases">
  39         <tr align="center"><td>[2006-10-19]</td></tr>
  40         <tr align="center"><td>The latest stable<br />Cogito release is <b>v0.18.1</b>:</td></tr>
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  52 <p>Cogito is popular interface to the <a href="http://git.or.cz/">Git</a>
  53 version control system. It is designed to be comfortable, easy to use
  54 and present gentle learning curve for new users. It is not by far as full-featured
  55 as "raw Git" is, but although the plain Git interface went a long way since the
  56 first days, Cogito still provides a simpler and easier to learn interface. If you
  57 want to start to use Git and are considering Cogito, the best way to go about
  58 it is to first learn Cogito, then pick up Git commands if you need to do something
  59 extraordinary.</p>
  60
  61 <p>If you want to start using Cogito right now, grab it by installing it as a package
  62 by means suitable for your distribution (if applicable) or by clicking on a link in
  63 the box at the right; you can also clone it using either of those:</p>
  64
  65 <pre>
  66 cg clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git
  67 git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git
  68 </pre>
  69
  70 <p>For quick introduction to Cogito, follow the
  71 <strong><a href="http://git.or.cz/course/">Git Crash Courses</a></strong>
  72 - they are presenting Cogito commands.
  73 <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/docs/introduction.html">More
  74 technical introduction</a> (especially wrt. how branches work) is also there, as
  75 a part of <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/docs/">the full documentation</a>,
  76 which is available on the web and also in a
  77 <a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=cogito/cogito-doc.git;a=summary">special git repository</a>.</p>
  78
  79 <p>Cogito qualifies as one of Git <em>porcelains</em>; it is de facto as old as
  80 Git is (the first scripts appeared one day after Git was publically released)
  81 and the development of both tools is tightly coupled. They both use the same
  82 resources: the <a href="irc://irc.freenode.org/#git">#git</a> IRC channel,
  83 the <a href="http://git.or.cz/gitwiki">Git Wiki</a> and
  84 the <a href="mailto:git@vger.kernel.org">Git mailing list</a> (you do not need
  85 to be subscribed to post).</p>
  86
  87 <p>Cogito is an <a href="http://www.opensource.org/">Open Source</a> project covered
  88 by the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt">GNU General Public License</a>.
  89 It was originally written and is still maintained by Petr Baudis.</p>
  90
  91 <h2>Addons</h2>
  92
  93 <p>It is possible to create third-party addons to Cogito adding custom commands
  94 but using the Cogito infrastructure. For an example, see the
  95 <strong><a href="http://kernel.org/git/?p=cogito/cogito-bundle.git">cogito-bundle</a></strong>
  96 project (repository at <tt>git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito-bundle.git</tt>),
  97 which is actually useful on its own as well - it lets you exchange commits over
  98 mail by so-called "bundles", similar to e.g. Bazaar bundles - basically, it is
  99 like push or fetch, but over email, and the commit ids are preserved when
 100 transferred in bundles (if you just send patches, the commit ids will end up
 101 different).</p>
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