Maybe you have to merge that orphan branch with master before doing a push?
--emi ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On 26 June 2018 3:02 PM, Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > On the Oracle side, we've been trying to push the 2nd donation today. > > We need an 'orphan' branch since that's what we need to work with Emilian's > > history, as I understand it. > > We've tried pushing to Git and failed thus far and are discussing with > > Apache infra what to do next. Only via Git, AFAIK, can an orphan branch be > > created, not GitHub. > > git push --set-upstream origin 2ndDonation > > and > > git checkout --orphan 2ndDonation > > That was rejected for some reason. > > Anyway, just to let you know we're trying -- Jan Lahoda amongst others is > > involved in this. > > Thanks, > > Gj --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
