This package provides functionality to allow for SVN - Git transition for the Bioconductor Project.

• Create a private git server with all Bioconductor packages, including commit history from each of the RELEASE branches and the devel branch.

• To participate in the current testing cycle, communicate a single ssh public key to this google form https://goo.gl/forms/eg36vcBkIUjfZfLe2. We will not be accepting keys via email.

• ALPHA testing. Remember, repositories are static snapshots of svn; they are not current, changes commited here are not propagated to svn, and will not be retained.

• Clone a package for read-only access

   git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/<package>.git 

  or for read / write (appropriate permissions required)

   git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/<package> 

• See the branches available

   cd BiocGenerics git branch -a 

• Checkout branch and see if the commit history is correct

   git checkout RELEASE_3_0 git log 

• Local commits

   ... git commit -m "alpha test" -a 

• Push commits to writeable repositories (commits will be lost after testing phases are complete)

   git push 

• (Non-core users): Fail to push changes on non-master or RELEASE_3_4 branch.

   git checkout RELEASE_3_3 ... git commit -m "alpha test" -a git push # fail 

• Elementary browser interface available at

   https://git.bioconductor.org 

• View R(ead) / W(rite) privileges

   ssh git@git.bioconductor.org info # all packages ssh git@git.bioconductor.org info packages/BiocGenerics 

• ssh-based read-only access to all repositories
• ssh-based read-write access to selected repositories
• public read-only access to all repositories
• experiment-data packages

ssh may have to choose between multiple keys. Resolve this with an entry in the plain-text ~/.ssh/config file, where identityfile disambiguates the key you'd like to use.

 host git-bioc user git hostname git.bioconductor.org port 22 identityfile ~/.ssh/id_rsa 

Use as git clone git-bioc:packages/BiocGenerics.