[Biopython-dev] Moving from CVS to git

[Bartek Wilczynski]

Hi all,

Time for an update on how things are with git and biopython.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Bartek
Wilczynski<bartek at rezolwenta.eu.org> wrote:
> I've only quickly tested git, and I was able to pull from github with
> no problems. I will try porting thew scripts from my machine to
> dev.open-bio tomorrow.

That works fine. I've set up a crontab script
(/home/bartek/github_backup.sh) on dev.open-bio machine which fetches
the current github branch and saves it to
/home/bartek/biopython_from_github. Then it creates a "bare
repository" (/home/bartek/biopython.git) which can be then used by
others. If you have an shell account on the dev machine, you should be
able to clone it over ssh with the following command:
git clone ssh://_YOUR_USERNAME_@dev.open-bio.org/~bartek/biopython.git

if this is put into a directory accesible via http, one can also clone
(anonymously) over http. I don't have an account on biopython www
server, but I was able to put it on my server (just to check if it
works). You can fetch it like this:
git clone http://bartek.rezolwenta.eu.org/biopython.git

In conclusion: it works. I would say, that the next important step is
to decide when to stop commiting to CVS... I'm just waiting for a
signal to terminate the updates from CVS to github and we are done.

In the meantime, it would make sense to make it more stable which
involves some technical details (mostly related to user accounts)
Namely, we need to
- set up these scripts on biopython account instead of my own (see below)
- decide whether we want other things to be done by these scripts
(generating src tarballs, etc)

>
> In the meantime, I've checked that biopython account on dev.open-bio
> machine is assigned to Brad Marshall. I haven't seen him posting to
> the list lately. Does anyone have the access to this account?

This would come in handy now. Anybody knows how to access this account?


cheers
Bartek