[Biojava-dev] Cloning repositories in eclipse

[Spencer Bliven]

I got a little behind on this thread.


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:10 PM, P. Troshin <to.petr at gmail.com> wrote:

> So it would be nice to have things working out of the box. Alternatively
> maybe it is worth looking for/trying alternative Git plugin?
>

Peter, Eclipse does work with git (the second set of instructions
here<http://biojava.org/wiki/BioJava3_eclipse>do work, it just takes
more steps than the old svn workflow. There is a
JGit plugin for eclipse, but it doesn't seem to have a maven connector like
EGit does.

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Hannes Brandstätter-Müller <
biojava at hannes.oib.com> wrote:

> It makes pull requests a bit complicated too, as the web UI defaults to
> the release branch.
>

Hannes, I can see your point. My original thought was that Master should be
default so that new users would get a stable checkout, whereas developers
should know about git enough to figure it out. I was expecting the tools to
make it a bit easier to choose branches.

But moving devel -> master and making that the default sounds smart. Users
who want stable releases are likely to use maven or download jars, so we
should make git default to the latest code.

I do like having a single release branch, rather than just a series of tags
or a whole slew of release branches. We don't really do hotfixes, so the
full git-flow layout is overkill.

-Spencer