[ensembl-dev] Ensembl Migration to Git

[Duarte Molha]

Fantastic News!

I believe CVS was beginning to really become a hindrance.
Will you be accepting contributions to the code through git from external developers or is this just an internal transition?

Cheers

Duarte


-----Original Message-----
From: dev-bounces at ensembl.org [mailto:dev-bounces at ensembl.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Meacham
Sent: 18 November 2013 17:36
To: dev at ensembl.org
Subject: Re: [ensembl-dev] Ensembl Migration to Git

Bravo!

On 18/11/13 17:23, Andy Yates wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Over a year ago we emailed to announce our investigations into changing Ensembl's chosen version control system. After much time, effort and discussion I can announce that Ensembl will migrate to Git [1] on the 16th December 2013; approx. two weeks after our 74 release.
>
> Ensembl release 75 will be the first release on Git.
>
> The migration will see:
>
> 	* Ensembl's source code being distributed via GitHub [2]
> 	* A full export of Ensembl's CVS history into Git
> 	* 3 releases will continue to be available from CVS (ending with release 77)
> 	* A discontinuation of supported repositories on cvs.sanger.ac.uk after this date
> 	* Ensembl distributions such as our FTP tarball will continue to be 
> provided
>
> CVS has served us well for over 14 years. However we have seen other projects within EMBL-EBI and Sanger make a similar transition to Git. None of them have looked back citing better tooling, a larger support base and an ability to support both long-term and short-term development branches. We agree and cannot wait to start using this exciting technology.
>
> We hope you also find this change as exciting as we do and look for 
> our new repositories available from https://github.com/ensembl
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andy Yates
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
> [2] https://github.com/
>
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