Re: scratch/igc as a feature branch [was: Re: igc: trying to chase a crash]

["Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
>> Cc: gerd.moellmann@gmail.com,  yandros@gmail.com,  ofv@wanadoo.es,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  pipcet@protonmail.com
>> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:56:29 -0500
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > The question is indeed what kind of trouble this could cause.  If it
>> > loses the history, I wouldn't do it, since the fact that it's under
>> > scratch/ is not a catastrophe, IMO.
>> 
>> Sure, my idea would be to just push the current head of scratch/icg to
>> feature/igc (and remove the first), so no history would be lost.
>
> If that works (I never did anything like that, so don't know what Git
> does), then I don't mind.

One can also rename branches, BTW.

>
> If we do this, it would be good to post a message here telling people
> how to switch to the renamed branch, even if that is trivial.

Shouldn't we wait for Pip to say something?