Re: help with git

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Joe Neeman wrote:
> > 
> >> I have a jneeman branch on savannah that has some old changes I don't
> >> particularly want to keep.
> > 
> > Can you delete it with
> > 
> >     $ git push jneem :/refs/heads/jneeman
> > 
> > or does it still say something about non-fast-forwarding?
> > 
> > This is a recent addition to git, and I don't know how up-to-date 
> > savannah's git is.
> 
> Can't this be done with  a
> 
>   +jneeman:jneeman  
> 
> refspec? 

No. Evidently, someone decided at savannah, that it is a shared setup, 
where you are not expected to have non-continuous development. That is why 
they set it up in a way where pushes are disallowed, which break the 
history off.

It is for the reason that a fetch (and to a certain extent, a merge) 
_will_ have problems once it has a version which is not an ancestor of the 
to-be-fetched version.

Ciao,
Dscho