The git commit hook was configured this way by accident, it should now be possible to delete branches again. I deleted fix-fly-center center now to test, but anyone should be able to do the same if this happens again.
Brecht. On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Dalai Felinto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Short Story: > ========= > $ git push upstream :fix-fly-center > > gives me the error: > > ``` > remote: *** Deleting a branch is not allowed in this repository > remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/fix-fly-center > To [email protected]:blender.git > ! [remote rejected] fix-fly-center (hook declined) > error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]:blender.git' > ``` > > Can anyone with administrator rights remove this branch? > Thanks > > Long Story: > ======== > 'arc land' landed the branch in my github repository > > * arcanist defaults to origin for most of its operations, and since > .arcconfig is part of our repository, I can't change it without > arcanist itself complaining of non-committed changes in my branch. I > think I will rename git.blender.org to origin, and my github to > something else. > > After I realized what happened I did the following command following > arcanist suggestion: > $ git checkout -b 'fix-fly-center' 'cacaad40ac1be0dca73e26f62edc03d361cba85a' > > so far so good, I then did: > $git push upstream > > While I should have done: > $git push upstream fix-fly-center:master > > And now I ended up with a branch in git.blender.org that I cannot delete. > It's no big harm, but it wouldn't hurt to delete the branch and > pretend this never happened ;) > > Cheers, > Dalai > -- > blendernetwork.org/dalai-felinto > www.dalaifelinto.com > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
