Re: delete remote branch

Nick, just keep the ActiveBranches[1] page on the wiki up to date. I plan on deleting all the dead branches (and sending out a warning beforehand) after the 7.8 release. We'll be doing other cleanups then too. On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Nicolas Frisby wrote:

Thanks Herbert.

Whom should I email you again when I'm ready to delete my other branches? You? Austin?

On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

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Hello Nicolas,

On 2013-09-08 at 09:41:04 +0200, Nicolas Frisby wrote:

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I just merged in my -fdicts-strict work, so I was deleting the old branch… but it's rejected for some reason.

$ git push origin --delete dicts-strict remote: performing tab-check... remote: + refs/heads/dicts-strict ghc <my-username> DENIED by fallthru remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/dicts-strict To ssh://git@git.haskell.org/ghc.git ! [remote rejected] dicts-strict (hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://git@git.haskell.org/ghc.git'

Git gurus chime in? Thanks.

The current configuration doesn't permit risky operations, such as deleting branches and/or non-forward-updates (imagine someone would delete or rebase branches such as 'master' or 'ghc-7.6'). Moreover, having commits disappear causes headaches with other facilities (e.g. git submodules).

Moreover, it was planned to define a Git ref namespace, where those operations would be allowed to everybody, something like 'wip/*' (see [1] for an example). Those branches could then also be made to be ignored by the Git email notifier, so that rebasing commits doesn't spam the Git commits mailing list.

In the long-term, we should avoid cluttering the top-level branch namespace[2] with topic branches, and move to a more structured naming scheme, which leaves the top-level namespace to release branches.

Long story short, I've deleted the 'dicts-strict' branch for you

Cheers, hvr

[1]: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/ [2]: http://git.haskell.org/?p=ghc.git;a=heads

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