2014-12-19 22:08 GMT-03:00 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at>: > Sebastian Kügler wrote: >> On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 16:12:05 Ben Cooksley wrote: >>> For deleting branches, I think we can allow this - given some >>> protection for certain branches (like the KDE/* branches for >>> instance). Note that courtesy of the backup functionality in our >>> hooks, no branch or tag is ever truly deleted from a repository on >>> git.kde.org. I don't know how easy it would be to alter this behaviour >>> based on the account name of the developer. >> >> What I would find helpful, concretely: >> - being allowed to delete "own" branches >> - force push for "own" branches since I could delete and recreate a >> branch, I >> may just as well directly be allowed to force-push, this makes it a bit >> easier to keep branches as clean as possible >> >> where "own" means "branchname starts with username/", for example >> "sebas/hacking". > > Why can't we just allow delete and force-push of all branches for all KDE > contributors? Hasn't it always been KDE policy that contributors are trusted > not to do stupid things? Why do we need to enforce this through technical > restrictions?
The way the hooks work now, I think we should allow delete and not force-push, because deleting a branch stores a backup ref. -- Nicolás
