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

On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 09:48 -0800, Kevin Herron wrote:
> I'm not sure if I've actually tried deleting a branch from the
> command line or not when I was done with it, but I've had no issue
> periodically deleting old branches in the GitHub UI. Maybe as the
> project lead I have permissions to my repo that you don't have on
> yours?

I'm project lead but I'm not on github but on the Eclipse Foundation's
git server.

> 
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Alois Zoitl <alois.zoitl@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 15:09 +0000, Ed Willink wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > The default settings are that you can delete branches named
> > azoitl/*
> > > (assuming that azoitl is your commit name).
> > 
> > Does this mean I have to prefix feature branches which I want to be
> > able to delete later with my commit name? I would find this rather
> > inconvenient. 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?
> > 
> > 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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