On 17 December 2014 at 17:00, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 17 Dec 2014, at 10:07 pm, jan i <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, December 17, 2014, Peter Kelly <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > >> The actual URL is > >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-corinthia.git < > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-corinthia.git> < > >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-corinthia.git < > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-corinthia.git>> > >> > >> If you do a direct clone of this right now it will give you an error > about > >> ‘no branch’. We have two - stable and develop. You can check out as > follows: > > > > > > > > is that a problem just now or something I should talk to infra about ? > > I’m not sure if there’s a way to set the default branch on a remote > repository from the client side. Github has an option where you can set > this, as do some other git hosting services. > > However I don’t thinks it’s strictly necessary that we have a default > branch set, and in fact not doing so forces people to explicitly state > whether they want to be on the development or stable branch. Thus in the > instructions we should tell people to issue one of the following commands: > > git clone -b develop > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-corinthia.git < > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-corinthia.git>git clone > -b stable https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-corinthia.git > <https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-corinthia.git> > > There’s pros and cons to making one of the the default. We don’t want > people committing to stable directly once we have the build bot up and > running, however someone completely new to the code who just wants to try > it out is likely to be best of using the stable branch, as that is > guaranteed to build & work. If their purpose instead is to commit, they > should check out develop. > > It’s only an issue the very first time a given person starts working with > the repo however, since it is easy to switch between the branches with ‘git > checkout’ after the clone. > Sounds ok to me !
btw mirroring is up (at least on git.apache.org, seems github itself takes a bit longer (this is due to a fast ticket solver in infra (Humbedooh)). I have done "git clone -b develop ....." now I am trying to find the right "git checkout -b stable" command. rgds jan i. Ps. This is something for our wiki, when I get a couple of minutes > > — > Dr Peter M. Kelly > [email protected] > > PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> > (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > >
