Thanks Jukka for your help. I have filed 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5145 for this. I have a clone of 
the git repo till late this evening, so I will push that once the branch is 
reset. 

Thanks
Hari

-- 
Hari Shreedharan


On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Hari Shreedharan wrote:

> Thanks, Jukka. The merge commits mentioned here aren't really merge commits 
> in the true sense. I will file an INFRA ticket to reset trunk to a commit 
> before the merge commits. 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Hari
> 
> -- 
> Hari Shreedharan
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wednesday, August 15, 2012, Hari Shreedharan wrote:
> > > It seems like a commit to Flume's git-wip-us repo has created a bunch of 
> > > merge commits(which were due to some local merges on the committer's 
> > > local repo) on Flume's git repo. I know that we do have a policy against 
> > > rewriting history, but I would like to request a reset of the trunk 
> > > branch to a previous state(as of earlier today), so that we can remove 
> > > the merge commits and keep the history linear. Only one extra "real" 
> > > commit was pushed - which will be re-pushed.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > By default the Git repositories on git-wip-us are configured to prevent 
> > rewriting history of the main branch, but you can file an INFRA issue to 
> > get that done. Simply include the hash of an already existing commit to 
> > which the branch should be reset. 
> > 
> > Alternatively you could simply let the merge commits remain in the history, 
> > as there's little harm in having them and in many cases (like when working 
> > on topic branches, etc.) merge commits contain valuable information about 
> > the evolution of a codebase. 
> > 
> > BR,
> > 
> > Jukka Zitting 


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