[Biojava-dev] Cloning repositories in eclipse

[Michael Heuer]

+1 to devel --> master and using tags for releases.

As was said above a release branch can be created from a release tag
at a later date if necessary.

   michael

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Hannes Brandstätter-Müller
<biojava at hannes.oib.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
> 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
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