I was Blind, but Now I Can See

I just upgraded from an old Feisty to a shiny new Jaunty. There are lots of updates, lots of shiny new things and it boots like a Ferrari.

But out of all the software that has been upgraded, I think my jump in Git versions from the old 1.4.something I had from Feisty Backports to the new v1.6.0.4 in Jaunty is going to give me the most pleasure.

Already I am seeing better formatted messages, more information and some really nice messages too. Before today, I'd never see the following:

 $ git checkout blah
 Switched to branch "blah"
 Your branch is behind 'origin/blah' by 9 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.

That's awesome. Now I know, before I start to hack, that I might as well rebase because I'll have to do it before I push anyway.

As I said to a friend earlier on today:

I was blind, but now I can see.

I think that's what the blind guy meant when Jesus healed him ... he'd obviously just upgraded Git!

Labels: git, ubuntu

Inserted: 2009-05-12 10:39 (1 year, 2 months ago)

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