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Richard Trotta, 04/30/2019 01:25 PM

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h1. Analysis How-To
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h2. How should I analyze data?
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* Doing things locally will always be your best option for actual analysis. 
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** Fork a repo of hallc_replay_kaonlt %{color:red}and% UTIL_KAONLT for your own custom version that you can play with
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* Once you have forked the repo, clone hallc_replay_kaonlt to a local directory
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* Now the tricky part, UTIL_KAONLT is a submodule of hallc_replay_kaonlt so some intermediate steps will need to be made
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** Check .gitmodules to make sure submod is listed
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* If HEAD is detached (check with git branch -a)
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* Check if head is really detached
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* Change to master branch
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* Pull and check branch again, everything should be set!
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* Now that we have our repo locally we should set it up to pull from the “main” JeffersonLab version
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* First check your remote “origin” repo (this is where you will push to)
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* Now that we have our repo locally we should set it up to pull from the “main” JeffersonLab version
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* First check your remote “origin” repo (this is where you will push to)
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* Next lets set up the “upstream” which is the JeffersonLab repo (DO NOT push HERE)
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* You will not be able to push to upstream unless you’re Stephen or me so don’t worry too much. Just be cautious.
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* A similar procedure can be performed with UTIL_KAONLT
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* Finally, let's talk about branches. Let’s add the develop branch to our local system…
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** First create a branch locally called develop and change to it
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* Now simply pull develop
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* To create a new branch you must first create it in github
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* Then simply repeat the steps for setting up a branch from the previous slide
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h2. Replaying
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* Before we can analyze we must replay. This should be done in the farm to save yourself time and local cpu effort.  The easiest way is to do a batch job submission, but this comes with some prep work.
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* Before a batch submission, I highly encourage two preliminary steps
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## Do all debugging of replays locally, once this works move to the farm
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## Once on the farm you have two options; your ifarm version or our group (discussed soon).  This is for final debugging purposes to assure everything works in the farm, then you can submit a batch job. Save the root files in /volatile/hallc/c-kaonlt/<USER> (note: volatile is NOT backed up)
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* There is a batch script I have created and Stephen as changed with the help of Brad to assure it will not mess things up.  Again, I highly recommend the two above steps before moving onto this script or you will be wasting time and resources.
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* Your final batch job submissions can be saved directly to tape.