Erik Kluzek

@Katetc I'm not sure what you mean by this... ` I think it would be very valuable to have manage_externals ignore the changes to an Externals.cfg file, so that all...

Note, I'm setting up a time to discuss this tomorrow at 11:00am MDT. Ping me if you want to be added to the group.

We started the discussion on this. Half of the half-dozen people on the call would do git commands for branches, and the other half would make branches for the purpose...

Note, also that @jedwards4b pointed out a feature in manage_externals to us that most of us hadn't realized. A positional argument to manage_externals is to checkout the list of externals...

Note, this issue is important for CTSM... https://github.com/ESCOMP/ctsm/issues/806

@bekozi hmmm. I'm not sure there's much of a reason to add an arbitrary string as a global attribute to the file, as I can use NCO to add it...

@bekozi that's great, that gives me the kind of metadata that I've found to be really useful. One other thing I've found useful is the version of the program or...

The creation date is best off in the history attribute, because you can then figure out any follow on history. If you have creation_date as a separate attribute, it's not...

Perfect. Works for me.

@juliusvira can you add me as a collaborator to your fork of ctsm, so I can push to your branch? Thanks.