GIT development branches for packagers?

[H. Guémar]

/me wants the ability to push force on *private* branches


2014/1/15 Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi.boukelmoune at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Dne 14.1.2014 21:41, Andrew Lutomirski napsal(a):
> >> I have some trivial cleanups I want to make to a package a maintain.
> >> These cleanups are trivial enough that I don't think they're worth a
> >> new build.  Should I commit them to the master branch?  If so, I can
> >> imagine a couple of issues:
> >>
> >>  - A provenpackager could kick off a rebuild for whatever reason (e.g.
> >> dependency soname bump).  That will (I think) inadvertently include my
> >> changes.
> >>  - I need to think about whether to add a changelog entry or not.  If
> >> not, those changes might be included silently.  If yes, then I need to
> >> think about what to do about the revision number.
> >>
> >> The normal GIT approach would be to develop on another branch and to
> >> merge when I want to build a new revision (the Fedora equivalent of
> >> tagging a new release).  Should Fedora provide branches like
> >> master-devel, f20-devel, etc that store pending changes?
> >>
> >> Am I missing something really obvious here?
> >>
> >> --Andy
> >
> > Actually I'd really love to see some possibility for private branches.
> > Now, it is possible to push whatever branch (take it literally) you have
> > in your local git repo into dist-git, but there is no way how to delete
> > it by myself.
> >
> > For example, I am using branches to keep my .spec file aligned with
> > upstream development and I'd like to share it with other maintainers.
> > But this .spec file should never build in Rawhide unless it is approved
> > by FESCo.
> >
> > Could you please add support for private branches? I.e. the branch which
> > starts by private- prefix could be pushed and deleted as well, non ff
> > commit should be allowed. Actually, better would be if only master, fxx
> > and elx are protected and others are unrestricted, but I am probably
> > asking too much.
>
> For private branches I'd rather see something along fas/branch.
>
> With the '/' separator you can glob refspecs, and using your fas as a
> prefix could enable automatic acls with less pain on the
> infrastructure side (eg. allow anyone to manage and own private
> branches at will).
>
> Dridi
>
> > Vít
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