From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: [Q] Branch aliases (synonyms)? Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:29:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4FF30FD6.6020501@alum.mit.edu> References: <1919214.YKUdgul2iY@laclwks004> <93cfd6eb9045585728dfe649359a103c@ulrik.uio.no> <4261222.bYBuBBxnOa@laclwks004> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Hallvard Breien Furuseth , git mailing list To: Brian Foster X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 03 17:36:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sm59Z-0003h7-Gt for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:36:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932182Ab2GCPgc (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:36:32 -0400 Received: from ALUM-MAILSEC-SCANNER-3.MIT.EDU ([18.7.68.14]:64264 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-3.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753616Ab2GCPgb (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:36:31 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 421 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:36:31 EDT X-AuditID: 1207440e-b7f036d0000008b5-d7-4ff30fd9d257 Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-3.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id B7.34.02229.9DF03FF4; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:29:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.101.152] (ssh.berlin.jpk.com [212.222.128.135]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id q63FTRkr032758 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:29:28 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4261222.bYBuBBxnOa@laclwks004> X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFvrFIsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqHuT/7O/wZkOMYuXUyosuq50M1ms nvSTxYHZY/u816we3d1v2Dw+b5ILYI7itklKLCkLzkzP07dL4M44u3sNW8E1toq+Lc2sDYxd rF2MnBwSAiYSW3fcZIGwxSQu3FvP1sXIxSEkcJlR4vasY1DOMSaJrxteg3XwCmhLPDl/mQ3E ZhFQldh8agdYnE1AV2JRTzNTFyMHh6hAmMT0newQ5YISJ2c+AVsgIqAjMf/eCTCbWSBD4vjW 22A1wkAj72x+ywhiCwlUSyz6NJMJxOYEqm+YdowVot5MomtrFyOELS+x/e0c5gmMArOQrJiF pGwWkrIFjMyrGOUSc0pzdXMTM3OKU5N1i5MT8/JSi3SN9XIzS/RSU0o3MUJCl28HY/t6mUOM AhyMSjy8UtM++QuxJpYVV+YeYpTkYFIS5dUHBr4QX1J+SmVGYnFGfFFpTmrxIUYJDmYlEV7u M0DlvCmJlVWpRfkwKWkOFiVxXrUl6n5CAumJJanZqakFqUUwWRkODiUJXjOQoYJFqempFWmZ OSUIaSYOThDBBbKBB2iDCUghb3FBYm5xZjpE0SlGRSlx3jd8QAkBkERGaR7cAFiSecUoDvSP MC83SDsPMEHBdb8CGswENDhvMcjpxSWJCCmpBkbxiB81UkaCu3b0Lmp+6ftD6BbTzC8lj0Lb HtX7vVh17gFLJ/91LkPfE5J+KtJlUm/WCrse3579PM+wSuE088rJbC4Hyq3WmHKtPizd+8J5 0v4Vvs+63rH0HtQSmyzofWviq6k3d/gvV3r1a5KS4rH3RQvMtzrptp3qnv1t2ZQF Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 07/03/2012 03:40 PM, Brian Foster wrote: > On Tuesday 03-July-2012 05:23:29 Hallvard Breien Furuseth wrote: >> E.g. if it's hard to teach developers to switch >> from B to A, a hook which rejects pushes to B might help. > > Whilst we _may_ have problems with some of the > internal developers (this can be managed so I'm > not worried about it), the concern is about the > external users (clients who clone but never push) > becoming confused. Hence the requirement about > continuing to use the same branch name as you are > used to using. That's it! It's that simple. Maybe create a new branch B (an orphan commit unconnected to the old branch B) with a single README file telling the person that from now on they should be using branch A. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu