I believe this is still in place, though I am not sure how we can verify this (without doing a force-push of course)
+Vinod > One thing that wasn't clear from the INFRA announcement: are trunk, > branch-* branches protected against force-pushes in the new world? If not, > should we ask them to be locked up? > > Thanks > Karthik > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli < > vino...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As some of you have noticed, we have an update from ASF infra on git >> branching policy: We no longer have a ASF wide mandate on disallowing >> force-pushes on all branches / tags. >> >> Summarizing information from the INFRA email for the sake of clarity in >> the midst of recent confusion >> - We now can do force pushes, and branch/tag deletion on any branch or >> tag except refs/tags/rel >> - Any force pushes will be annotated in the commit-email as “[Forced >> Update!]” for the community to watch out for undesired force-pushes >> - Only tags under refs/tags/rel are protected from force-push for the >> sake of release-provenance: Essentially, the releases that community votes >> on are archived in their entirety with the development history and we >> cannot alter that once a tag is created. As one might expect. >> >> What this means for us >> - Stale branches: There are a few stale branches that got accumulated. >> — During this branch moratorium, origin/bracnh-2.8 got created (May be >> as part of HDFS-8785, can’t say for sure) >> — A couple of stale branches that helped 2.6.1 release: >> origin/sjlee/hdfs-merge and origin/ajisakaa/common-merge >> — I’ll wait till EOD tomorrow for any yays/nays and delete them >> - Feature branch updates: Developers can now go rebase and force-push >> their feature branches. >> - Mainline branches: Mainline branches like trunk, branch-2 have always >> been configured to avoid force-pushes. In general, force-push continues to >> be recommended mainly for feature branches and definitely not on any >> mainline branches from which we make releases. >> - Release tags: >> — To follow ASF provenance policy, we will now push the final release >> tags under refs/tags/rel. We will first push the RC tags under where they >> reside now (refs/tags) and if the vote passes, the final tag will be >> created under refs/tags/rel. >> — I’ll update our release wiki page >> http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToRelease < >> http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToRelease> with the same details once I >> can get 2.7.2 release done using this updated process. >> - Existing release tags: >> — There is a general recommendation from INFRA team to take all of our >> existing release tags under "tags" and copy them to “rel”. >> — I’ll wait till EOD tomorrow for any yays/nays and copy existing >> releases under refs/tags/rel following general recommendations. >> >> Any comments / thoughts / questions welcome. >> >> Thanks >> +Vinod
