also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> [2009.05.10.0028 +0200]: > > Keep in mind that the branches accumulate remotely, so you'd have to > > pass -r or -a to git-branch to be exposed to them. > > Accumulate? [...] > > Anyway, unfortunately, published branches cannot be renamed with > > Git, or retired, or anything of that sort, so the concern is valid: > > Why not?
Because they might exist in downstream repos and could be pushed back at any time. However, contrary to my initial believe, this requires explicit pushing with standard Git. TopGit currently, however, overrides the default push refspec and effectively defaults git-push to --all. > git checkout topic--obsolete-later > git checkout -b old-obsolete-now > git push --all > > git branch -d topic--obsolete-later > git push origin :topic--obsolete-later > git remote prune origin Right, until I push back topic--obsolete-later, which I had previously checked out. > > you'd have to start a new feature branch as obsolete/new-feature > > to be able to declare it obsolete later on, at which point we > > might just as well not use the namespace. :) > > This sounds wrong to me. What am I missing? Mainly my list mail following this one. :) -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems wind catches lily, scattering petals to the ground. segmentation fault.
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