I think you just have bad timing. Apache infra just locked down all git branches, which I think maybe include this delete. Hopefully this will get cleared up soon. See the infra mailing list:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-infrastructure-dev/201511.mbox/%3CCAKprHVZoW9V46vkE%3DfVkuYEZxfELzmarSdO-7RQCPS0J9pWp0w%40mail.gmail.com%3E It seems like at the very least you should be able to delete a branch that has been fully merged... -Dan On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Ashvin A <[email protected]> wrote: > I have merged the branches. But I could not delete branch GEODE-409 > following the instructions on > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Developer+Workflow > > git push --delete origin feature/GEODE-409 > remote: error: denying ref deletion for refs/heads/feature/GEODE-409 > To https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-geode.git > * ! [remote rejected] feature/GEODE-409 (deletion prohibited)* > error: failed to push some refs to ' > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-geode.git' > > Does this branch need special access? > > Thanks, > Ashvin > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Kirk Lund <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Sai Boorlagadda < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > +1 > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:17 PM, William Markito <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Darrel Schneider < > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Ashvin A <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > Branch 'feature/GEODE-409' was merged into develop 2 days ago. I > > > fixed > > > > a > > > > > > failing test and committed the change on feature/409 after the > > merge. > > > > It > > > > > > should have been committed on develop instead. I will need to > merge > > > the > > > > > > branch again. I am thinking we should delete feature/409 as we > are > > > not > > > > > > working on feature/409 actively. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Ashvin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > William Markito Oliveira > > > > -- For questions about Apache Geode, please write to > > > > *[email protected] > > > > <[email protected]>* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Sai Boorlagadda > > > > > >
