Request for comment: Potential change to dist-git branch structure

[Jesse Keating]

On 12/04/2010 07:24 AM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
>> Also we would need to get a new fedpkg into the hands of all the
>> > developers that handles the new branchnames.  We could do a build
>> > that
>> > handles both the oldnames and the new and have it out and available
>> > for
>> > a reasonable period of time before we make the switch.
> Would it make sense to add functionality to fedpkg which checks if there
> exists configuration for remote branch tracking (i.e. local "f14"
> tracks remote "f14/master"), and if that's the case, print
> a warning (e.g. that it's recommended to delete the local branch and
> recreate/check it out again)? This won't help much for the "git pull"
> problem, but it may prevent some users from running into that problem
> in the first place, because they saw the warning earlier when switching
> branch or doing some other fedpkg operation.
> 

It's possible.  The trick would be when to turn that warning on, because
we'd have to get the new fedpkg out and available for a reasonable
amount of time before we make the change to the repos, so it could wind
up warning people a week or more before any repo changes are made.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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