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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 April 2013 15:46, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The conversion to git is now complete. (Thanks again to Florian for
> helping us out with the scripting!) Here are some initial instructions
> for how to access the new code.
>
> - The new repositories can be found here:
>
>   https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project
>
> - The repositories (here DOLFIN) can be cloned by:
>
>   git clone https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin.git
>
> - Developers with write access should use:
>
>   git clone git@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:fenics-project/dolfin.git
>
> - A full 1.2 GB archive of all the repositories, before and after
>   conversion, before and after filtering, including all feature
>   branches hosted on Launchpad can be downloaded from here:
>
>   http://fenicsproject.org/pub/archive/
>
>   Developers of feature branches should be able to clone their feature
>   branches in git from the above address, push to bitbucket, and make
>   pull requests.
>
> - A very good resource for how to use git can be found here:
>
>   http://git-scm.com/book
>
>   I suggest everyone reads it carefully, at least the first three
>   chapters, but here's a very quick git introduction:
>
>   1. Same as hg/bzr with: git add, rm, commit, clone, push, pull, status
>
>   2. Files need to be staged before commit: git add foo, or use commit -a.
>
>   3. The whole bzr mess of needing to merge in a separate directory is
>      gone. Just pull (or fetch + merge), commit, push as with hg.
>
>   4. Branches are very light-weight and in-directory, as opposed to
>      bzr with one-directory-per-branch.
>

A branch in a directory still works and is superfast (by copying files):

    git clone foo bar

To replicate the process used for cloning from a a remote server
(which is slower)

    git clone foo file://bar

Garth

> - Work in progress: new mailing list, moving questions to
>   stackexchange, closing down Launchpad pages, moving issues,
>   downloading copies of tarballs from Launchpad and archive on web
>   page. Please comment and contribute.
>
> --
> Anders
>
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