Re: non-fast-forward pushes to Emacs Git repo "scratch" branches?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:21:25 +0100 phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) wrote: 

PL> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Can the Emacs Git repo allow non-fast-forward pushes to "scratch/*"
>>> branches?
>> 
>> No, because the non-fast-forward constraint is applied globally.
>> But you can delete a branch and then push a new branch under the same
>> name, with the same end result.

PL> It is possible to enforce this on a per branch basis. Just applying it
PL> on master and anything starting with "emacs" (for release branches)
PL> would do the trick.

PL> It would also be possible to prevent, for example, accidental deletions
PL> of emacs-25, or master as well as enforce the "don't check into emacs-25
PL> without asking" rule.

I'd be excited to see these improvements. Another is to enforce the
commit message formatting.

I don't have access to the relevant infrastructure, unfortunately. I
imagine it's a matter of modifying the receive hook scripts. Can I help
make it happen?

Thanks
Ted