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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] inetutils: accidental push of branch
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Sylvain Beucler |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] inetutils: accidental push of branch |
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Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:07:43 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:57:06PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:55:05AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> >> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 05:43:36AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> >> > Could someone remove the ams branch in inetutils? I pushed it by
> >> > accident, and it seems that I cannot remove.
> >>
> >> This section is dedicated to you:
> >> http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit#removing-a-branch
> >>
> >> $ git push origin :ams
> >> *** Deleting a branch is not allowed in this repository
> >> error: hooks/update exited with error code 1
> >> error: hook declined to update refs/heads/ams
> >>
> >> So that section is of no help to me.
> >
> > Jim, do you know what is inetutils' "update" hook?
>
> Hi Sylvain,
>
> It's a mostly-default one.
> You can enable branch deletion by doing this on the server:
>
> git --git-dir /vservers/vcs-noshell/srv/git/inetutils.git \
> config hooks.allowdeletebranch true
>
> There are comments in hooks/update that describe this
> and the other config-controlled options.
Yes but we don't use it by default - I suppose that you installed it
as part of the migration to Git.
What was its purpose - so we know what we should or should not modify
(or disable it entirely)?
--
Sylvain