[GNC-dev] Repository Branch Changes

[David T.]

Thanks, John. I appreciate all your effort and eloquence. 

⁣David T. ​

On Mar 27, 2023, 7:44 PM, at 7:44 PM, john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>Docs: Yes, as it would be confusing to have different branch names in
>code and doc.
>
>Accidental pushes: I'm looking into that. I think I can do that in the
>post-commit hook.
>
>Wiki articles: Thanks for the reminder.
>
>Regards,
>John Ralls
>
>
>> On Mar 26, 2023, at 8:36 PM, David T. via gnucash-devel
><gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Out of idle curiosity (since I'm not actively working on these things
>any more), are these changes applying to the docs platform as well? 
>> 
>> And are there mechanisms that can prevent the sporadic developer who
>might have an existing clone locally from pushing to these outdated
>branches? I imagine that there are many clones out there in the hands
>of such intermittent developers.
>> 
>> Also, ISTR that there are extensive instruction guides to development
>on the wiki. I'll hope that those will get appropriate updates to
>reflect the new naming conventions...
>> 
>> ⁣David T. ​
>> 
>> On Mar 27, 2023, 2:54 AM, at 2:54 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>wrote:
>>> I've created new `stable` branches in gnucash.git and
>gnucash-docs.git
>>> and changed Github's default branch to them. This is effectively a
>>> rename of master; when Derek has time he'll delete the master
>branches
>>> from code and Github.
>>> 
>>> You can modify your local repositories with:
>>> git branch -D maint
>>> git branch -m master stable
>>> git fetch origin
>>> git branch -u origin/stable stable
>>> git remote set-head origin -a
>>> 
>>> and optionally to clean things up:
>>> git remote prune origin
>>> 
>>> Please do this ASAP to avoid inadvertently pushing anything to maint
>or
>>> master!
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>> 
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