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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Fwd: Replacing master branch for Texinfo g
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Fwd: Replacing master branch for Texinfo git repository |
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Fri, 28 Dec 2018 12:22:00 +0000 |
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:02:22PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Gavin Smith wrote:
> > Texinfo is moving to git for its version control and I have pushed a
> > conversion of its old SVN repository to Savannah. The main branch there
> > is called "trunk". This should be changed to be called "master", as that
> > is the standard name for git. There is already a branch called master
> > but this is 10 years out of date, and was produced from an earlier
> > conversion from CVS. I have tried to move the label of the "master"
> > branch to the "trunk" branch, but this is not possible - "non-fast forward
> > commits" are not allowed. Is it possible for an administrator to enable
> > this? There is not really any point that I can see in keeping the
> > cvs2git conversion there.
>
> Hearing no objections I have temporarily enabled non-fastforward
> commits. You are free to go forth and --force push. :-)
The git repository is working fine now, so it would seem to be the right
time to disable non-fastforward commits again, if you wanted to do that.
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