[Biojava-dev] Github available

[Spencer Bliven]

Everyone who requested git access on the spreadsheet should now have it. I
recommend forking the repository to your own account if you're new to git.
You can then accept your own pull requests into the main devel branch,
after checking that the git history looks reasonable. While git is very
flexible with rewriting history on local forks, once it gets pushed to the
main repository it is much harder to undo any mistakes.

Let me know if I missed anyone!
-Spencer


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:

> Thanks a lot, Spencer! This is a big step forward for the project!
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> Andreas
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> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Spencer Bliven <sbliven at ucsd.edu> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> You can get a clone via the commandline:
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>>   git clone -b devel https://github.com/biojava/biojava.git
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>> 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).
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>> 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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