[ensembl-dev] Ensembl Migration to Git...

[Steve Moss]

Dear Andy,

That's great news!

Cheers,

Steve

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.ukafter 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/
> >
> > ------------
> > Andrew Yates - Ensembl Core Software Project Leader European
> > Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) European Molecular Biology
> > Laboratory Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD
> > Tel: +44-(0)1223-492538
> > Fax: +44-(0)1223-494468
> > http://www.ensembl.org/
>


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Kindest regards,

Steve Moss
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