From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:51:32 GMT
Subject: Re: best git practices, was Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued
Message-ID: <20071025145132.GA31196@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4720903E.1070103@op5.se>

On 2007-10-25 14:46:54 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> error: The branch 'next' is not a strict subset of your current
> HEAD. If you are sure you want to delete it, run 'git branch -D
> next'.
>
> So you want me to tell all the developers they should use "git
> branch -D maint" instead, so they can bypass the built-in security
> checks? No thanks.

Maybe the solution here is to let "git branch -d" succeed if the
branch is a subset of HEAD or the branch it is tracking? That way,
deleting would succeed if upstream has all your commits.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle