Frequently asked questions
If anyone asked questions, the following ones would be frequent. I guess.
What’s in a name?
Cogite was born as an internal tool at Polyconseil. It was then a
single Python module creatively called “ghub”. Because it would work
with GitHub and hub was already taken. Clever, isn’t it?
While looking for a new name to conquer the world, I was reading one of the Discworld novels. This is why Cogite comes from the first name of a character in the French edition: Cogite Stibon. In the English edition (as well as the German edition, apparently), the character is named Ponder Stibbons, which does not contain “git” and is hence not particularly appropriate 1. So Cogite it is.
You may pronounce it “Cojeete” (as in French) or “Cog-it”. Or “that tool that’s great”. Really, I don’t mind.
Merge strategy is superior to rebase and you MUST implement it
Did you not think of tag lines?
I am so glad you asked. In no particular order:
Pull requests for Humans™. I only lacked the name-dropping^W^W testimonials and could not quite yet list dozen of Fortune 500 companies and shiny unicorns where someone someday used Cogite.
Take the power (of your pull requests) back. Too mysterious, unless you are a fan of Rage Against The Machine. (Thinking about it, that could be a nice feature: play a random RATM song on each invocation of Cogite. And possibly “Never gonna give you up” from time to time.)
Live and die from your command line. Too pompous and definitive. Slightly frightening. And, well, depressing.
Pull requests made simple. Want more? Cogite. And it’s done. Not enough? Don’t push only pull requests, push the limits! Please someone stop me.
Should you not work on the other parts of the documentation instead of procrastinating here?
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Note that neither the Polish nor the Swedish editions would have helped, since the character is named “Myślak Stibbons” and “Grubblemus Stibbons” there respectively. I may use the latter for another project, though.