[Bioc-devel] cherry picking fixes to release

[Turaga, Nitesh]

Thanks for the heads up. I will fix the documentation on the website. 

Best,

Nitesh 

> On Oct 3, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, that seems to have fixed it. Thanks for your help.
> 
> I guess the guide on the Bioc website needs to be tweaked.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Turaga, Nitesh
> <Nitesh.Turaga at roswellpark.org> wrote:
>> I’m just guessing, but I think “git” is trying to work on the upstream RELEASE_3_5 directly.
>> 
>> Maybe try,
>> 
>>        git fetch —all
>>        git checkout -b RELASE_3_5 upstream/RELEASE_3_5   ## This will create a local branch RELEASE_3_5 which follows your upstream/RELEASE_3_5
>> 
>> This should not have that detached head state.
>> 
>> Nitesh
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 3, 2017, at 2:11 PM, Turaga, Nitesh <Nitesh.Turaga at RoswellPark.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Micheal,
>>> 
>>> This is very interesting, I’m never run across it.
>>> 
>>> Can you tell me what package you are working on, and I’ll try your commands as a user. (I won’t push anything, just want to reproduce the error)
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Nitesh
>>>> On Oct 3, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Nitesh,
>>>> 
>>>> I tried following your guide to fixing bugs in devel and release, but
>>>> I hit a hurdle.
>>>> 
>>>> I did a git fetch --all. Then a git branch RELEASE_3_5.
>>>> 
>>>> But I end up in a weird detached head state.
>>>> 
>>>> bash-3.2$ git branch
>>>> * (HEAD detached from origin/RELEASE_3_5)
>>>> master
>>>> 
>>>> Do you have any ideas?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Michael
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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