Public development

In general, all DART development is public, either on the DART repository or a fork of the DART repository.

Private development

When is it ok to use a private repo?

• Collaborators require a private repo for development.
• You want to have content for the DART team only.

If you want to use GitHub with a private version of the DART repo with your collaborators. You can create a new private repository on GitHub, for example https://github.com/your-private-repo, and use this new private repo as a remote. Follow the same conventions for feature branch workflow by creating a branch for you and your collaborators to use.

git clone https://github.com/NCAR/DART.git
cd DART
git checkout main
git checkout -b embargoed-feature
git remote add collab https://github.com/your-private-repo
git push -u collab embargoed-feature

In the above example,

https://github.com/your-private-repo is the private repository.

embargoed-feature is the branch where the private development will be done.

collab is the name of the remote.

To list all the remotes you have for a repository, use

git remote -v