Using a branch of ESMValTool

Branches

By default, CMEW will use a released version of ESMValTool such as v.2.13.0.

There may be circumstances where it is desirable instead to use a different branch, for example, a CMEW user may have their own recipes and diagnostic scripts available in a branch of ESMValTool, or they may wish to use a new diagnostic which is in main but not yet in a release.

This functionality is controlled by two variables in the rose-suite.conf file. e.g. to use the branch “main” one would set the following:

USE_ESMVALTOOL_BRANCH=true
ESMVALTOOL_BRANCH="main"