[Biojava-dev] Github available

[Andreas Prlic]

Thanks a lot, Spencer! This is a big step forward for the project!

Andreas


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Spencer Bliven <sbliven at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> The source to biojava3 is available on github! See
> https://github.com/biojava/biojava. Sorry about the delays–it was more
> difficult than I expected. I am still working on the legacy source, and
> should have that repository converted soon.
>
> You can get a clone via the commandline:
>
>   git clone -b devel https://github.com/biojava/biojava.git
>
> Remember, *DON'T USE THE 'RELEASE' BRANCH*! Any commits there should be
> considered full biojava releases. To add new features, please create a new
> feature branch from  'devel', make your changes, and then merge back into
> 'devel'. Hopefully the branch names should make this clear. Note that there
> is no 'master' branch. This is deliberate, to avoid ambiguity. Make sure
> your tools are set up to use the right branch when cloning. I've set
> 'release' as the default branch so that new users will get stable code by
> default, so us developers need to make sure we're doing the right thing!
>
> I am actively working on updating the documentation on the wiki to reflect
> the new location. I could use some help on this if anyone has time to
> contribute. As a start, here's a page on using Git in Eclipse (
> http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava3_eclipse), and here's documentation of the
> migration process (http://biojava.org/wiki/SVN_to_GIT_Migration).
>
> To check that your github account was properly linked, find an old commit
> and check that the author links to your github account. Old commits
> currently do not show up in your contribution activity, but I am hoping
> that it will appear after the github servers have time to index the new
> repo. I haven't added everyone as contributors yet, but will do so shortly.
>
> The git repository contains all the history after biojava moved from Ant to
> Maven (r7227). There was a major code rearrangement at this point that
> could not be automatically resolved by git-svn due to the early version of
> SVN the old repository used. Most branches were started before this point,
> so they were also not converted to git. The SVN server is still up in
> read-only mode in case we need to access the old history or migrate old
> branches. Please let me know if this is a concern for anyone.
>
> Thanks for your patience through the process!
>
> -Spencer
>
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