[cctbxbb] Branches

Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve rwgrosse-kunstleve at lbl.gov
Sat Apr 21 20:32:50 PDT 2012


I'm using git a little bit, too, when I'm traveling. I really like the
GitHub mirror idea but don't have the free cycles to establish and maintain
it myself. But I'd be happy to support someone else taking the lead on this.
Ralf

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Luc Bourhis <luc_j_bourhis at mac.com> wrote:

> As a lone developer this would make a lot of sense - however I'm working
> with others on these projects so it would be a pain to go this way.
>
>
> I beg to differ. You and your collaborators could work together on a
> distributed git repo mirroring sourceforge on the master branch. You would
> do your collaborative work on various development branches. Someone would
> finally be responsible to merge the relevant branch to the master branch
> and then to push the changes to sourceforge. Again feel free to substitute
> mercurial instead of git.
>
> However, a corollary of this is that it would be neat to be using a
> distributed system - is there any scope for doing that?
>
>
> Our beloved overseer for life is not interested to switch away from
> subversion but it is very all too easy to create a mirror, as I did. Since
> I am the only person who has seemed motivated by git so far, I haven't made
> my git repo public but if you are interested I could push it to GitHub (I
> could also give you access to my computer but since I work from home, it
> would not be so reliable network-wise as I have got a rather hopeless ADSL
> at the moment). I may even be possible to put a post-commit hook on
> sourceforge to automatically push any new commit onto that would-be GitHub
> repo.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Luc
>
>
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