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On March 8th, the Bioconductor Core Team will rename the default branch on git.bioconductor.org
to devel
.
For more details, see
On March 8th, the Bioconductor Core Team will rename the default branch on git.bioconductor.org
to devel
.
For more details, see
The Bioconductor Core Team has moved forward with the branch renaming from master to devel on git.bioconductor.org . Please see
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Dear Lori,
Thanks for the notice of this change and for the instructions given on the linked pages.
In my case, i have git clones of many Bioconductor packages on multiple computers. I understand that I need to issue the following git commands on my local clone:
I am supposing that I need to use these git commands for every copy of each package on every computer, but just to check:
Thanks
Gordon
Yes you have to use the same commands for each copy for every package you are and are not the maintainer of. Everyone that has a copy, that copy must be updated (or you can reclone after Wednesday when we announce the switch is complete and get the updated copy - this might be useful for those you are not maintain of). At least temporarily we will not completely disable master and will keep master/devel in sync providing a warning when pushes happen to the deprecated master branch, however the plan is to completely defunct the master branch after the fall release, at this time you would have to use devel and if you try to use master will get an error so we strongly, strongly encourage to adopt using devel as soon as possible.
The latest Bioconductor's R journal article mentions this change to error in 1 or 1.5 years while it seems this will be enforced next release... I suppose adoption is being enforced quicker and the best plan is to update now the branch names and keep following updates.
We will probably stick with what it advertised but yes we recommend adopting as soon as possible.