From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: non-fast-forward pushes to Emacs Git repo "scratch" branches? Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 06:23:55 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87r3buztfo.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87fusc0w33.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466245501 21885 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2016 10:25:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 10:25:01 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 18 12:24:52 2016 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 1bEDQn-0005wR-Kr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:24:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEDQm-0007Hf-Ha for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 06:24:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41257) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEDQB-0007GA-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 06:24:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEDQ8-0000jF-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 06:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEDQ7-0000i8-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 06:24:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bEDQ0-0005Mk-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:24:00 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-229-60-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.60.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:24:00 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-60-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 12:24:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-60-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CZFUU2uyUmpzsNwzKmhDMJ6r7Ts= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204465 Archived-At: On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:25:13 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Can the Emacs Git repo allow non-fast-forward pushes to "scratch/*" >> branches? SM> No, because the non-fast-forward constraint is applied globally. SM> But you can delete a branch and then push a new branch under the same SM> name, with the same end result. SM> I don't know if John would object to it, and I don't think this has SM> already been used in the past, but when I suggested the use of SM> the "scratch/" prefix, I did assume that such "rebasing" would be used SM> there occasionally. Perfect, thanks. Ted