Hi Jukka, 

The INFRA ticket that I filed for tho: INFRA-5145 was closed as "Won't Fix" by 
joes4. Could you please help us get trunk reset?  

Thanks,
Hari

-- 
Hari Shreedharan


On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Hari Shreedharan wrote:

> 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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