[Bioc-devel] Update git-mirrors

[Thomas Lin Pedersen]

Thanks for that - for some reason it doesn’t create a local release-3.3 branch that can be synced to svn? Anyway, I think it’s fair to say that there need to be some convenient way to update ones git environment after each Bioconductor release…


> On 17 Jun 2016, at 10:58, Elena Grassi <grassi.e at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I manually added the tracking of the release branch picking some piece
> of code from update_remotes.sh:
> 
> $ git config --add svn-remote.release-3.3.url
> https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/branches/RELEASE_3_3/madman/Rpacks/PACKAGENAME
> $ git config --add svn-remote.release-3.3.fetch
> :refs/remotes/git-svn-release-3.3
> $ git fetch bioc
> remote: Counting objects: 7, done.
> remote: Total 7 (delta 3), reused 3 (delta 3), pack-reused 4
> Unpacking objects: 100% (7/7), done.
> From https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror/roar
>   1a892c7..15b5049  master     -> bioc/master
> * [new branch]      release-3.3 -> bioc/release-3.3
> $ git update-ref refs/remotes/git-svn-release-3.3 refs/remotes/bioc/release-3.3
> 
> It is not general with variables and so on as long as I was trying to
> understand the single steps. I suppose that it could be possible to
> fix update_remotes.sh
> to deal with the need to simply add a new tracking to the release
> branch, I could work on it this weekend if no one has already done
> that and if we think it could
> be useful.
> 
> E.