GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 642561
Allow wip/* branches to have non-fast-forward pushes
Last modified: 2013-11-21 14:56:44 UTC
Hello, many times I personally rebase a wip branch against master, subsequently I have to push it and it's obviously a non fast-forward push. For this reason I have to delete the remote branch and push it again. I'd like to request non-fast-forward pushes for wip/* branches.
Done, but two caveats: A) You need to provide the -f flag to push or git will still deny it B) Mail will still be sent out about the commits - just as if you deleted the branch and pushed it again - if a commit has a new parent, it's a new commit according to GIT. The only thing we could think of for B) is that for multi-commit pushes to WIP branches we *only* send out the "cover email" and don't send out the detailed email, and then we change the current logic: A) We send out detailed emails only for commits showing up for the first time in any branch in the repository To: A) We send out detailed emails only for commits showing up for the first time in any non-WIP branch in the repository So we always send out a detailed mail for any patch landing in a non-WIP branch. But people may want the normal detailed mails for patches landing in WIP branches, even if they land in large bunches?
Thanks. I have no idea about other gnome modules, but for what concerns vala, wip branches are usually worked out by a single person and then deeply reviewed once they are complete. From this perspective I find it unnecessary to send detailed information.
You could look at the subject of the patches and see if you can match them up. That might help a lot.
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