Re: [incubation] Closing/deleting feature branches in git

[Alois Zoitl <alois.zoitl@xxxxxx>]

> 
> > As commiter I'm creating feature branches also for
> > contributors so that they have a place where they can push commits
> > to
> > gerrit in a branch which is later merged to the main development.
> > As it
> > is not me I'm working on the branch I would not like to see my name
> > there.
> > 
> > How are other projects handling this?
> 
>      As for the absence of permission to delete a branch, iirc it
> was 
> historically setup this way to avoid misusage by the many ppl that 
> migrated from CVS and had little experience with Git. As others 
> mentioned this can be resolved by opening a bug in the Git component
> at 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Community
> 

To be honest as I'm migrating from mercurial I'm quite happy for some
protection. git is still a different kind of beast ;-)
I filed the bug report.

Thanks again for all the comments,
Alois


> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Alois
> > 
> > > You can request to be given more permissive push capabilities.
> > > (Pehaps temporarily while you rename to conform to the standard
> > > policy.)
> > >      Regards
> > >          Ed Willink
> > > On 13/12/2016 14:30, Alois Z. wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >   
> > > > I'm coming from Mercurial and there you typically close a
> > > > branch. I
> > > > googled and found that in git you delete it. However as I
> > > > expected
> > > > I'm not alllowed to push the delete. Therefore I'm kindly
> > > > asking
> > > > what is the recommended practice for handling git-feature
> > > > branches
> > > > in the eclipse git envirionment?
> > > >   
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Alois
> > > > 
> > > > 
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