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traitecoevo / data_versioning

An approach for practical and simple data versioning in R
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Closed richfitz closed 7 years ago

richfitz commented 9 years ago

As pointed out by @cboettig, think about what happens with forked data. Do forks get numbers? What happens on a merge? (technically, can gh forks handle releases?)

wcornwell commented 9 years ago

There probably are a lot of OK solutions, and I don't think we have to be too prescriptive about it all.

But, at least for earth systems models, any serious fork that's going to last a while gets a (semi-meaningful) name and its own semantic versioning trajectory. (There is a popular fork of the LPJ earth system model to develop fire behavior called Spitfire.) I think they sometimes merge a big fork back to the main branch with a major version jump...