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From: Gaius Mulley <gaiusmod2@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 1-800-GIT-HELP (how to delete a user branch?)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 14:15:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eduw11ux.fsf@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH6eHdQB_MVgC6=s=6URdm-fS0jDJ0Mprgd3=JgOnxz+4TMVPg@mail.gmail.com> (Jonathan Wakely's message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2022 14:09:17 +0100")

Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 13:23, Gaius Mulley via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just wondering what is the safest way to delete a user branch?
>>
>> [I used ./contrib/git-add-user-branch.sh and wanted to start over
>>  (user branch for m2 and gcc12)],
>
> When you say start over, do you mean reuse the same branch name for a
> different branch with unrelated history, but using the same name?

yes

> If yes, you can just force push the new history to the branch. That's
> the simplest answer.

great thanks a lot!  I will try this approach

> If you really want to delete the branch, then you just say:
>
> git push --dry-run --delete REMOTE BRANCH
> and if that looks right, remove the --dry-run option.
>
> The REMOTE will be something like users/gaius and BRANCH will be
> something like refs/users/gaius/heads/m2gcc12 depending on how you set
> up your local user branches.

many thanks useful info.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-25 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-25 12:21 Gaius Mulley
2022-10-25 13:09 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-10-25 13:15   ` Gaius Mulley [this message]

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