[Numpy-discussion] curious about how people would feel about moving to github

Jarrod Millman millman at berkeley.edu
Wed May 26 23:45:46 EDT 2010


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey at gmail.com> wrote:
> All that I ask is that there is one official place to do 'git clone'
> or 'git pull' from a single official branch. I do not think that it is
> good to tell users to pull from different branches especially if these
> branches have conflicts. It also provides a common foundation to
> troubleshoot problems (of course you don't see it because you don't
> have that branch...). Yet I do understand that any release candidate
> can be pulled from any tree (as happens with the Linux kernel) and
> that this should be more of guide than a fixed rule.

That seems to be a very reasonable request and one that I agree with.
If we do move to git we will have an official master branch, which
will be a single official branch.

Thanks for the feedback.
Jarrod



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