Developer Notes

Squashing a branch before issuing a pull request

1. Review log and write comprehensive commit message

2. Squash branch and add commit message to beginning of log:

    git checkout feature/xyz
    git rebase -i develop
   

3. If needed issue git mergetool -t meld to resolve issues. And git rebase --continue to continue.

Building a Linux binary on CentOS 5

In order to build a Linux binary that will work on most systems, use an old version of Linux. We have chosen CentOS 5, which first came out in 2007.

1. Download ISO from http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/x86_64/ and install it on a virtual machine.

2. Install Developer Toolset 2.1 from http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/devtoolset/#dts21

3. Extract CMake binary from http://www.cmake.org/download/

4. Enable the toolset from the command line: scl enable devtoolset-2 bash

5. Configure and build DeNovoGear:

   cd ~/denovogear*/build
   ~/cmake*/bin/cmake .. -DBUILD_EXTERNAL_PROJECTS=1 -DUSE_STATIC_LIBS=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
   make
   make package
   

Counting The Number of Downloads

curl https://api.github.com/repos/denovogear/denovogear/releases | jq -r '.[].assets[] | [.["name"], .["download_count"]] | @csv'

Verbose Output of Failed Tests

env CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE=1 ninja test