d8a632950a717f3ecaddbfb01c0e0b84f5b6726a
markd
  Tue May 21 11:57:36 2019 -0700
remove static limit on size the number of blocks that can be in a bigPsl.  Test case not checked in, as it is 20mb for one record (fixes #23537)

diff --git src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/hg38.txt src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/hg38.txt
index 78f04eb..28636c1 100644
--- src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/hg38.txt
+++ src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/hg38.txt
@@ -7107,15 +7107,47 @@
     # Edit human/hg38/wgEncodeGencodeSuper.html and update 'Release Notes'
     # to describe new release. [ONLY if it's going to be pushed]
 
     # edit human/hg38/trackDb.gencode.ra to add new .ra file include
     make DBS=hg38
 
     ## only if being pushed to RR:
     # edit all.joiner to add ~/tmp/gencodeV30.joiner
     # verify with:
     pushd /hive/data/genomes/hg38/bed/gencodeV30
     make  -f ~/kent/src/hg/makeDb/outside/gencode/gencodeLoad.mk joinerCheck
 
     # commit all
 
 #########################################################################
+2019-05-17: import of UCSC GENCODE group processing of GENCODE V31 (markd)
+    # import of pre-release, it will be promoted if there are no changes in the final release.
+    # edit hg/makeDb/outside/gencode/gencodeLoad.mk to set release and ensembl versions
+
+    # download, build and load tables
+    mkdir -p /hive/data/genomes/hg38/bed/gencodeV31-pre
+    pushd /hive/data/genomes/hg38/bed/gencodeV31-pre
+
+    (time nice make -j 10 -f ~/kent/src/hg/makeDb/outside/gencode/gencodeLoad.mk) >&build.1.out&
+
+    # compare tables from previous release to see if number changed makes
+    # sense.  Results are in gencode-cmp.tsv
+
+    # generate trackDb and joiner blurb
+    pushd ~/kent/src/hg/makeDb/trackDb
+    ../../makeDb/outside/gencode/gencodeGenerateTrackDbs hg38 31 97 'June 2019'
+
+    # Edit human/hg38/wgEncodeGencodeSuper.html and update 'Release Notes'
+    # to describe new release. [ONLY if it's going to be pushed]
+
+    # edit human/hg38/trackDb.gencode.ra to add new .ra file include
+    make DBS=hg38
+
+    ## only if being pushed to RR:
+    # edit all.joiner to add ~/tmp/gencodeV31.joiner
+    # verify with:
+    pushd /hive/data/genomes/hg38/bed/gencodeV31
+    make  -f ~/kent/src/hg/makeDb/outside/gencode/gencodeLoad.mk joinerCheck
+
+    # commit all
+
+#########################################################################