[petsc-dev] petsc-dev on bitbucket

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Sean Farley wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Hell, if you *really* want to, just create the account:
> petsc-release(s)
> > > then the URL would be
> > >
> > > http://bitbucket.org/petsc-release/petsc-3.1
> > >
> >
> > Actually, it's even easier than that:
> >
> > https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-dev/downloads
> >
> > which provides downloads for all taged changesets.
>
> tags are no good. we implrement branches in different clones.
>

I am not sure what you mean by this. Let me be explicit.

This organization is semantic, and Completely outside the version control
structure. I want something to tell me "this repo is about simulating
rockets"
like Kit, the voice in Michael's car. Tags are fine for this. So is a
hierarchy.
So is silly XML metadata.

   Matt


> You could argue that we should throw away branches in clones have all
> clones in a single branch - and change our workflow.
>
> But I think this will be too confusing to most of us [yeah you could
> change your bash prompt to always indicate wich branch you are on -
> wich is equivalent to 'cd different clone' - but not all of us are
> that sophisticated]
>
> Satish
>
>


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