Utilising GitHub effectively for experiments and configurations

[Aidan (Aidan Heerdegen, ACCESS-NRI Release Team Lead)]

@dkhutch

Should I just make 4 different repos? And then worry about merging and grouping stuff later?

Well I have good news, payu now explicitly supports branching to make just such a scenario relatively easy to do.

I wrote a tutorial for ACCESS-OM2 but it covers your use case:

ACCESS-OM2 payu tutorial

Introduction This is a tutorial to introduce new users to payu, and explain new features of payu to experienced users, particularly how those changes might affect their existing workflow. payu is a scientific workflow management tool written in python and developed by Marshall Ward for use at NCI. Specifically this tutorial covers using ACCESS-OM2 experiment configurations supported by ACCESS-NRI. The tutorial begins with some general information about how payu works, highlighting some of th…

In particular the section B. Linked Experiments describes exactly what you want to do: create a series of linked experiments all branching from the same point in the experiment (same commit).

You’ll need to use the version of payu in vk83 to access these features. But all are welcome, come and join!