[BioRuby] bioruby-testing-central on github

[Pjotr Prins]

In my E-mail I showed you can individually branch (read 'fork') from
bioruby-testing-central. I have forked bioruby-testing-pjotr myself.

bioruby-testing-central is a clone of Bioruby since Bioruby is hosted on CVS
- not on git. I will fork once there is a git Bioruby repository.

Sorry if it all is a bit confusing. We are waiting for Bioruby to
migrate from CVS.

Pj.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 02:25:33PM +0100, Michael Barton wrote:
> I'd like to raise a point about forking vs cloning. In your email  
> Pjotr you recommend that new users clone the bioruby repository. Which  
> is the way git is be used. However since the project is on Github, a  
> project can be forked instead of cloned. Here is the Github blurb on  
> this
> 
> By forking a project instead of ((cloning, creating a new GitHub repo,  
> and pushing to it)), you allow us to create a link between your fork  
> and the original. This link helps us keep you informed of changes to  
> the original codebase and make it trivial for you to notify the  
> originator of changes that you have made and would like have reviewed.
> 
> I think an additional unmentioned advantage is that a fork only  
> contains the differences between yours and an original. Rather than  
> the complete cloned repo, so this would save space too.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On 14 Jun 2008, at 15:33, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
> >That looks really good. I think BioRuby being the first bio* library  
> >to use git and Github for distributed revision control is a really  
> >great step, and demonstrates the forward thinking of the BioRuby  
> >community.
> >
> >On 13 Jun 2008, at 02:38, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> >
> >>The Bioruby repository has been cloned to bioruby-testing-central:
> >>
> >>http://github.com/pjotrp/bioruby-testing-central/tree/master
> >>
> >>The convention is to name your repository as 'bioruby-testing- 
> >>yourname'.
> >>So my version will be bioruby-testing-pjotr.  If you register  
> >>yourself
> >>with github I can add you as a collaborator. Note: we are *not*
> >>competing with the main Bioruby tree - this is a facility to
> >>encourage code submissions. It is up to the main Bioruby maintainers
> >>whether stuff gets included in the main tree. This is a
> >>bioruby-testing tree.
> >>
> >>Clone the central repository with:
> >>
> >>git clone git://github.com/pjotrp/bioruby-testing-central.git
> >>
> >>You don't need to register for that. Patches can be submitted over
> >>E-mail.
> >>
> >>For using git see the tutorial at:
> >>
> >>http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html
> >>
> >>
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