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Re: [[cellml-discussion] ] Migration of the Physiome Model Repository from Mercurial to Git workspaces


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  • From: David Nickerson <david.nickerson AT gmail.com>
  • To: cellml-discussion AT lists.cellml.org
  • Cc: CellML Discussion List <cellml-discussion AT cellml.org>, A list for the developers of CellML tools <cellml-tools-developers AT cellml.org>
  • Subject: Re: [[cellml-discussion] ] Migration of the Physiome Model Repository from Mercurial to Git workspaces
  • Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:40:03 +1300
good point, thanks Lucian.


Cheers,
David.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Lucian Smith
<lucianoelsmitho AT gmail.com>
wrote:
> My one piece of feedback is that it would be nice if, with this move, some
> thought was given to a way that someone could download the entire (public)
> repository for local use. There was once a script that used mercurial that
> worked for an older version of the repository, but even that stopped working
> after a while. If everything is moving anyway, it seems to me that this
> would be an ideal time to look into ways to auto-generate archive .zip files
> or something similar.
>
> -Lucian
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:22 PM, David Nickerson
> <david.nickerson AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The Physiome Model Repository (https://models.physiomeproject.org or
>> http://models.cellml.org) currently makes use of Mercurial to provide
>> the underlying distributed version control system (DVCS) used in the
>> repository workspaces. See
>> http://aucklandphysiomerepository.readthedocs.org/ for the current
>> documentation or http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/22 for more
>> information.
>>
>> In an effort to consolidate software projects at the Auckland
>> Bioengineering Institute and in recognition of the huge rise in
>> popularity of the Git DVCS (http://git-scm.com/) since the inception
>> of the PMR2 software, we are planning to migrate away from Mercurial
>> and instead use Git as the underlying DVCS for managing workspaces in
>> the Physiome Model Repository. We are planning to complete this
>> migration in the first quarter of next year and will announce more
>> details early in the new year.
>>
>> At this stage, we would like to solicit any feedback from users of the
>> repository in regard to the planned migration. Particularly if this
>> change will have an impact on your use of the repository or any
>> software tools that you use in your modelling activities.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> David Nickerson
>> about.me/david.nickerson



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