Yes. Non-fast-forward pushes and branch deletion has been disabled temporary in all ASF repos until a proper Git policy regarding the topic is established foundation-wide. If you really need to delete the branch, I'm pretty sure reaching infra on irc, hipchat or a jira issue will help.
On 16 December 2015 at 22:17, Andrew Phillips <aphill...@qrmedia.com> wrote: > Hi all > > Getting the following error when trying to delete a stale branch: > > ..> git push origin :add-test-retry > Password for 'https://andr...@git-wip-us.apache.org': > remote: error: denying ref deletion for refs/heads/add-test-retry > To https://andr...@git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/jclouds.git > ! [remote rejected] add-test-retry (deletion prohibited) > > Are some new permissions needed for this (I know there have been some > changes to ASF's Git setup recently)? Do other committers get the same > error? If so, does anyone know what the correct process would be at this > point to remove that branch? Open an INFRA ticket? > > Thanks! > > ap
