Nick, just keep the ActiveBranches[1] page on the wiki up to date. I plan on deleting all the dead branches (and sending out a warning beforehand) after the 7.8 release. We'll be doing other cleanups then too.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Nicolas Frisby <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Herbert. > > Whom should I email you again when I'm ready to delete my other branches? > You? Austin? > > > On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Nicolas, >> >> On 2013-09-08 at 09:41:04 +0200, Nicolas Frisby wrote: >> > I just merged in my -fdicts-strict work, so I was deleting the old >> > branch… >> > but it's rejected for some reason. >> > >> > $ git push origin --delete dicts-strict >> > remote: performing tab-check... >> > remote: + refs/heads/dicts-strict ghc <my-username> DENIED by fallthru >> > remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/dicts-strict >> > To ssh://[email protected]/ghc.git >> > ! [remote rejected] dicts-strict (hook declined) >> > error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://[email protected]/ghc.git' >> > >> > Git gurus chime in? Thanks. >> >> The current configuration doesn't permit risky operations, such as >> deleting branches and/or non-forward-updates (imagine someone would >> delete or rebase branches such as 'master' or 'ghc-7.6'). Moreover, >> having commits disappear causes headaches with other facilities >> (e.g. git submodules). >> >> Moreover, it was planned to define a Git ref namespace, where those >> operations would be allowed to everybody, something like 'wip/*' (see >> [1] for an example). Those branches could then also be made to be >> ignored by the Git email notifier, so that rebasing commits doesn't spam >> the Git commits mailing list. >> >> In the long-term, we should avoid cluttering the top-level branch >> namespace[2] with topic branches, and move to a more structured naming >> scheme, which leaves the top-level namespace to release branches. >> >> Long story short, I've deleted the 'dicts-strict' branch for you >> >> Cheers, >> hvr >> >> [1]: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/ >> [2]: http://git.haskell.org/?p=ghc.git;a=heads > > > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > -- Regards, Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671 _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
