Nice work @holger.
So you’ve decided to coalesce all the experiments into a single repo, with a branch for each?
@micael and @aekiss have done the same thing for their ACCESS-OM3 configurations
Though I believe they are planning on stripping all model configuration from the main
branch and just have the README
explaining how to checkout an experiment branch and run the model.
There was some discussion about this in the most recent TWG meeting
I would suggest your instructions should recommend cloning the repo to a unique experiment name that reflects what they wish to run, e.g.
git clone -b pre-industrial https://github.com/coecms/access-esm pre-industrial-albedo-mod
cd pre-industrial-albedo-mod
You might want to set the experiment
name in the config.yaml
to the unique name of the experiment (the branch name in this case). This would avoid namespace collisions that would occur if someone switched to another experiment branch and ran from the same directory.
From the docs
experiment
(Default: current directory)
The experiment name used for archival. The default setting uses thecontrol
directory name