[cctbxbb] Moving cctbx to git

Fri Nov 4 10:24:26 PDT 2016

Hello everyone,

As Aaron requested - here is an update regarding the move to GitHub.

At this time if you want to commit code: *keep committing to Sourceforge*.

Do not worry about leaving uncommitted changes in your SVN tree. Those can be migrated later.

The Sourceforge cctbx repository history has now been migrated to GitHub. The repository lives at https://github.com/cctbx/cctbx. Please do not commit to this repository yet!

Over the next few days the bootstrap script will be modified alongside the build servers to point to the GitHub repository. This means there will only be limited testing, and the produced builds will lag behind the development effort.

To be listed as a developer on https://github.com/cctbx you need to set your visibility to public at https://github.com/orgs/cctbx/people<%20https:/github.com/orgs/cctbx/people>.

You can also view some fancy graphs about the cctbx project history at https://github.com/cctbx/cctbx/graphs/contributors<%20https:/github.com/cctbx/cctbx/graphs/contributors>

If you haven't done it before, now is a good time to set up your local installation of git to use your name and mail address with

git config --global user.name "John Doe"

git config --global user.email your_email at example.com<mailto:your_email at example.com>

as well as this setting to avoid merge commits:

git config --global pull.rebase true

Note that you must set these on every computer you use! You may want to keep a copy of those commands around in case you ever get a new computer.

You should use mail addresses registered with your github account, or - if you enable it in your github account - the anonymous address offered by github.

You may want to use the time to sort out your ssh access keys with your GitHub account, and play around with git a bit. You can test that everything works using the temporary sandbox repository of cctbx. Here are some commands to get you started:

git clone git at github.com:cctbx/cctbx-playground.git

cd cctbx-playground

echo some text >> some-file

git add some-file

git commit -m "some commit"

git push

git log

Then go to https://github.com/cctbx/cctbx-playground/commits/master to see how other people will see your commits.

The next steps:

*Tuesday 8th November 2016, 11:59pm Pacific Time*

*= Wednesday 9th November 2016, 07:59am GMT:*

Sourceforge: Committing allowed. GitHub: Checkout/Cloning allowed, *Read-only*.

We will update our build servers and the bootstrap script to refer to the git repositories.

All commits still run into Sourceforge, and will be copied over to GitHub automatically

every couple of hours. Since the build servers will only see code on GitHub,

testing and deployment will be limited during this period.

*Tuesday 22nd November 2016, 11:59pm Pacific Time*

*= Wednesday 23rd November 2016, 07:59am GMT:*

Sourceforge: *Read-only*. GitHub: Committing allowed

We should have achieved a stable build on both Jenkins and Buildbot by this time.

Change any website pointers from SF to GitHub.

Instructions to migrate local developer repositories will be sent around.

All future commits should go to GitHub only.

Remaining commits on Sourceforge will be migrated to GitHub.

-Markus

Dr Markus Gerstel MBCS
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Tel: +44 1235 778698

Diamond Light Source Ltd.
Diamond House
Harwell Science & Innovation Campus
Didcot
Oxfordshire
OX11 0DE

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