[petsc-users] Differences between main and release branches?

[Satish Balay]

The only way you would have got 'main' branch is if '-b release' option was missing [or there was some error in specifying it.

Either way - 'git checkout release' would set the repo to the desired 'release' branch.

Satish

On Mon, 3 Oct 2022, fujisan wrote:

> I probably did:
> 
> git clone -b release https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc.git petsc
> 
> like the documentation says. But I found out that I was in branch main.
> Cloning 3.17.4 is an abuse of language. I ment cloning petsc when that
> release was 3.17.4.
> 
> Anyway I git pulled this morning and checked out branch release.
> 
> Fuji
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 5:29 PM Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > What were the git commands used here [for each of these cases]?
> >
> > Normally you would checkout a branch - and pull on it. So "cloning 3.17.4"
> > doesn't really make sense - as there is no "3.17.4" branch.
> >
> > you ether checkout a tag - v3.17.4 - then you don't get a branch to pull
> > on. [sure you can do "git clone -b release" - but that's a branch].
> >
> > So the statement "3.17.4 gave main branch, 3.18.0 gave release branch"
> > doesn't really make sense to me [from the way git work]
> >
> > Satish
> >
> > On Mon, 3 Oct 2022, Jose E. Roman wrote:
> >
> > > 'main' is the development version, 'release' is the latest release
> > version.
> > > You can select the branch when cloning or later with git checkout.
> > > See https://petsc.org/release/install/download/#recommended-download
> > >
> > > Jose
> > >
> > >
> > > > El 3 oct 2022, a las 11:08, fujisan <fujisan43 at gmail.com> escribió:
> > > >
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > What are the differences between the 'main' and 'release' branches?
> > > >
> > > > Where I git cloned version 3.17.4, I was by default in the 'main'
> > branch.
> > > > Where I git cloned version 3.18.0 (I haven't git pulled from 3.17.4
> > yet), I was by default in the 'release' branch.
> > > >
> > > > Fuji
> > >
> >
>