From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Git help: amending a substandard commit message in savannah. Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:51:52 +0000 Message-ID: <20151123105151.GA2004@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448275809 4537 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2015 10:50:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:50:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 11:50:01 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a0oh5-0008LX-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:49:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0oh5-0002sj-3f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 05:49:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57848) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0oh1-0002rx-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 05:49:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0ogy-00088u-35 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 05:49:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:26987) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0ogx-00088q-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 05:49:52 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 33288 invoked by uid 3782); 23 Nov 2015 10:49:49 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p579E89A6.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.158.137.166]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:49:48 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 2877 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Nov 2015 10:51:52 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195101 Archived-At: Hello, Emacs. Yesterday, I committed a fix to savannah on "my own" branch fix/not-defined-at-runtime. The commit message was poorly constructed. I have corrected this locally with git commit --amend . When I attempt to push this to savannah with git push --force , my attempt quite properly gets rejected with an error message. Is there any way I can get this correction onto this branch (e.g. does anybody have the necessary permissions to perform the git push --force), or would I be better just to abandon the branch and create another one? By the way, what happens to abandoned branches? Does anybody do a periodic scan of branches to get rid of them? They surely don't go away of their own accord. If they aren't garbage collected, then the repository's list of branches will steadily fill up with useless cruft. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).