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alexander-kiselev committed Feb 10, 2024
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book-keeping (there is no way a reconstruction code can pick up an optical configuration which is
inconsistent with the GEANT geometry used in this simulation pass). All in all, it is a *development*
style package, limited in its functionality, and designed just to do the job of implementing and
trying out changes in the detector geometry in as simple and efficient way as possible, rather than a
versatile solid framework with a detector configuration being changed on a time scale of weeks and
months.
trying out changes in the detector geometry *by you* in as simple and efficient way as possible
(on a time scale
of minutes for a full edit-compile-run-reconstruct sequence for O(10k) events), rather than a
versatile solid framework with a detector configuration being changed *by somebody else for you*
on a time scale of weeks and months.

One downside of this approach is a necessity to keep track of *your own changes* and do not let them
interfere (after a *pull* request) with other changes occasionally happening in the repository. There are
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and push them to the repository often enough. One can of course just create a git branch where one can modify
the default header files directly.

It may make sense to look through the above mentioned default header files, which have a certain amount of
It may make sense to look through the above mentioned default header files, line by line. They have a certain
amount of
comments, which allow one to understand what is what. It makes sense to periodically check whether anything
was changed in the default configuration header files as compared to your local custom copies.

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