Git Migration FAQ’s

How do I access the repositories?

All of the migrated Simulation Systems repositories are found in the Met Office organisation. Certain repositories, where licencing allows, have been made public, so can be viewed by anyone. Other repositories (eg. UM) are internal to the Met Office organisation. These can be seen if you have access to the organisation.

Where are my branches and tickets?

Migration of individual branches and tickets is being left to each developer to be done on a case by case basis. Please see the branch migration guide for advice on migrating an fcm branch to git.

Why can’t I push or create a branch in the repository?

We are managing our repositories using a forking model, therefore creating of branches in the central repository is tightly controlled. Please create your own fork and develop your changes on branches in there.

Why won’t the rose-stem command work?

The syntax to launch the test suite has changed with the move to git. Please see our testing pages.

How do I run with an older version?

The entire history of each trunk branch from the MOSRS repository has been migrated (for the UM this is from vn9.2). If you need a specific release, then you can checkout the tag of that release, eg. git checkout <TAG>. If you require a specific commit, you will need to find the relevant hash from the history of the main branch.

Why can’t I see the full history of Jules and MONC?

Due to licencing issues we were unable to make the history of these repositories public. We have a copy of the repository with all the previous releases internal to the MetOffice. Please ask if you need help accessing that.