DVCS

GitHub’s “Organizations” for distributed #bioinformatics dev; migrating from Mercurial

February 12, 2011

GitHub.com’s “Organizations” is a great tool for distributed bioinformatics teams. Here’s how I migrated some of our repositories from Mercurial to Git to take advantage of this feature After much evangelizing, weeping, and wailing, I finally convinced everyone at one highly geographically and functionally distributed projects that we should at least try consolidating our code [...]

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A Worthy Mercurial (hg) Tutorial from Joel Spolsky

April 4, 2010

At WormBase, we’ve been busy re-writing the website from the ground up to build a modern information discovery space that will generically handle genomic data. As the project manager, I made the executive decision to switch from CVS/SVN to a distributed version control system (DVCS). I’d used both git and mercurial personally for over a [...]

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