Git and Cmake Migration

We are planning to change a number of major Chaste infrastructure components in the next few months. These include:

• Changing to a version control system based on Git rather than the current Subversion (See #2655)
• Implementation of a CMake build system, instead of the current Scons (See #2656)
• replacing the current continuous integration and testing scripts with a Buildbot system (See #2656)

This page will collate some of the information and guides related to the changes mentioned above.

Chaste Stakeholder Meeting Slides:

• attachment:chaste_infrastructure.pdf​ for an overview of the migrations.
• attachment:chaste_stakeholders.pdf​ for Git/Trac/Buildbot? links + CMake roadmap

CMake

• CMake build guide

Git

• Internal Git for Chaste developers guide
• Chaste Git tutorial slides attachment:git_slides.2.pdf​
• ​Chaste Git Tutorial exercises
• Other resourse for learning about Git:
  • ​Official Git documentation and book
  • ​Atlassian tutorials
  • ​Software Carpentry Foundation tutorial
  • ​Git For Subversion cheat sheet
  • ​Git cheat sheet
• Main Chaste repositories (clone repo using git clone <url>)
  • https://chaste.cs.ox.ac.uk/git/chaste.git -- New Chaste repository for development, only contains history since Version 3.0
  • https://chaste.cs.ox.ac.uk/git/chaste_history.git -- Full Chaste repository, contains all history
  • https://chaste.cs.ox.ac.uk/git/project/<your_project_name_here>.git -- Project repositories

Buildbot

Buildbot is the new test system built on cmake and git.

• trac wiki page for the buildbot setup

• ​Buildbot (v0.8.8) web server documentation

• Test results:
  • Failing
  • Continuous
  • Nightly
  • Lofty
  • Weekly
  • Full waterfall, refresh every 60s
  • Buildbot homepage

Tract

Not too many changes!

• Note: to refer to a changeset on tickets, instead of typing r12345 we now type [changeset:88cdb33/git_repo].