Documentation

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Mailing lists and collaborative tools

• Project web page: has to come
• General mailing list: pCT@uib.no
• Slack project

Software installation

• ROOT installation
• Geant 4 installation
• Gate installation
• FLUKA installation

Software repository

We use the gitlab server hosted by IT of University of Bergen.

• UiB gitlab web interface.
• Gitlab basics
• Gitlab workflow

Development workflow

Note: the repository has not yet been created

Everyone can access the main repository, however only a small group of administrators has write access. However, every user can fork a repository, this creates a copy where a single developer or a group of developers have full access.

The main repository has the following branches:

• production: the latest production code, in this branch we have release tags
• master: the latest stable release
• dev: the development branch

In addition to those main branches there can be feature branches where development happens detached from the main branches. A feature branch is based on the dev branch.

Creating a project fork

A project fork is a copy of the original repository where a user or a group of users has/have full control. All development in our project is carried out in the individual forks. Branches of project forks are merged back into the main repository by merge requests, preferably via fast forward merges. That requires that developers rebase the project fork to the main repository and resolve all conflicts before requesting a merge.

How to fork a project

Making local development copy

   git clone <project link>

Pull/Merge request

All updates to the main repository are made via merge requests (github refers to them as pull requests). A merge request requires the code update to be in a mergable branch in a development fork.

Coming soon: HOWTO