In my opinion, prohibiting forced updates causes more pain than it helps. The much more important part is that someone should make tags for the recent releases in the "rel/*" namespace so that they can't be modified. I'd suggest at least:
release-2.6.4 release-2.7.2 .. Owen On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Karthik Kambatla <ka...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Recent changes to branch policies have affected this. Our trunk seems > protected, but not branch-* branches. I had filed INFRA-11236 to address > this. I can't ping on the JIRA anymore because comments from > non-contributors are disabled. > > To prevent unintentional major messes, it is highly recommended we don't > force push. For JIRA ID mistakes in commit messages, we have been filing > another (possibly empty) commit that just says there was a mistake. e.g. > something along the lines of "Mistakenly committed HADOOP-13011 as > HADOOP-13001." > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:42 PM, larry mccay <lmc...@apache.org> wrote: > > > I believe that he squashed my attempted --amend into a single commit on > > branch-2.8. > > Not sure about trunk and branch-2. > > > > Thanks for the clarification on the formatting. > > I will comply in the future. > > > > For such issues, is a dev@ email first better than trying to "fix" it? > > > > Again, sorry for the inconvenience. > > > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Andrew Wang <andrew.w...@cloudera.com> > > wrote: > > > > > What does "fix" mean? We aren't supposed to force push to non-feature > > > branches, and actually thought this was disabled. > > > > > > Also FYI for the future, we normally format our commit messages with > > > periods, e.g.: > > > > > > HADOOP-13011. Clearly Document the Password Details for Keystore-based > > > Credential Providers. > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:26 PM, larry mccay <lmc...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > All - > > > > > > > > My first hadoop commit for HADOOP-13011 inadvertently referenced the > > > wrong > > > > JIRA (HADOOP-13001) in the commit message. > > > > > > > > Owen O'Malley helped me out by fixing the history on all 3 branches: > > > trunk, > > > > branch-2, branch-2.8. The message is correct now in the current > history > > > but > > > > you may need to rebase to the current history for things to align > > > properly. > > > > > > > > I apologize for the inconvenience. > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > > > --larry > > > > > > > > > >
