[Biojava-dev] Cloning repositories in eclipse

[Hannes Brandstätter-Müller]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:

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> I don't get why we have or need the release branch. Other projects hosted
>> on Github don't do it like that, and in my day job, we use maven and Git
>> with the release plugin without such a branch too.
>>
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> So the release plugin then tags the code, but does not create a branch?
> (in SVN tags and branches are essentially the same thing)  We could have
> one branch per release, but it sounds like this is not necessary. Also,
> looking back at past releases I can't remember that there was ever a commit
> on a release branch.
>
> Andreas
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>
I have to check, either only the tag or a branch for each release (but I
think that would be overkill for biojava).
I just want to keep it as simple as possible, which looks to be: one
default development branch called "master" and one branch for all releases.

Hannes