[petsc-dev] petsc-dev on bitbucket

[Barry Smith]

On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> There is only a 1-level hierarchy based on a top level account. Sean created 'petsc' for our stuff. We can create many, so that
> we have 'petsc-release', 'petsc-private', etc. if we want. Of course, I want traditional hierarchy, and will file a feature request.
> 
> If you phrase it like that ("traditional hierarchy"), then it will fall on deaf ears. The most I could see them adding is a way to create repo groups based on user groups (which exist currently). If you want your own personal collection of repos right-fucking-now, then fork the repos you want into your own account, like so:
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/seanfarley/petsc-dev
> 
> The nice thing about this is that you can tell where it was forked from: "(fork of petsc / petsc-dev)"
> 
> No I mean I want
> 
>   petsc/releases/petsc-3.1
>   petsc/tools/parsing/BarrysNewHTMLMunger

   Yes. If you can't have that then it is a pretty crappy system. Sort of like IBM 360 where you only had a root directory with a truckload of files in it. In excusable in 2012 (or even 1972).

    Barry

> 
>     Matt
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