[Biojava-dev] Cloning repositories in eclipse

[Andreas Prlic]

> 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



>
> It makes pull requests a bit complicated too, as the web UI defaults to
> the release branch. I had to force push something to my forked release
> branch because I accidentally added a file to the wrong branch at first.
>
> The single release branch also won't allow fix releases for older
> releases, or am I wrong?
>
> Hannes
>
> Am Donnerstag, 11. April 2013 schrieb Andreas Prlic :
>
> Same here, I got my eclipse setup to work with egit, but I thought that it
>> was not as easy as I would have hoped.   Let's try to keep the entry
>> barrier as low as possible.
>>
>> This leaves the question: should we rename the devel or release branch to
>> master? I'd say devel, since by default this would give you the latest
>> code
>> (similar to trunk checkouts in svn)
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Steve Darnell <darnells at dnastar.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Eclipse user here. +1 for making BioJava easier to setup in Eclipse.
>> >
>> > ~Steve
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: biojava-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org [mailto:
>> > biojava-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Spencer Bliven
>> > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 5:57 PM
>> > To: biojava-dev
>> > Subject: [Biojava-dev] Cloning repositories in eclipse
>> >
>> > When I first drafted the instructions for cloning biojava in eclipse<
>> > http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava3_eclipse>,
>> > I was frustrated that the simple 'Checkout Maven projects from SCM'
>> > doesn't work with our layout. The alternate checkout method is about 4
>> > times as long and much less intuitive.
>> >
>> > I had some time to debug the problem today, and it seems that the
>> e2m-egit
>> > connector doesn't handle branches. It fails with a misleading message on
>> > any repository without a master branch. I've submitted a bug report, but
>> > I'm not optimistic about it getting patched quickly.
>> >
>> > What proportion of BioJava users are using eclipse? Would fixing this be
>> > worth renaming one of the branches to master?
>> >
>> > -Spencer
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