Developers’ Guide

Compiled from various email threads on (and before) the nascent hande-dev list. The HANDE project’s paper [Spencer14] for the 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2) at SC14 contains a summary of working practices and our approach for developing software in an academic environment.

• Git
  • git repository
  • Precepts
  • Branch namespaces
  • How to generate a pull request
  • Merging to master
  • Unwanted experimental branches
• Adding a new test
• Debugging options
• FAQ