Non-wip/* branches

[Ben Gamari]

Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
>> facundominguez added a comment.
>> 
>> @nomeata please, could you remove the branches fd/fix-travis and 
>> fd/fix-travis2? Some server hook is preventing me from doing so.
>
> turns out I cannot do that either (which I knew). From experience, I
> know that I can create, force-push and delete branches of the form
> wip/*, but can only create and fast-forward-push to branches that are
> not of this form.
>
> This is mostly sensible, but it means that I cannot undo an accidental
> branch creation outside the wip/* branch.
>
> Ben, can you delete the two mentioned branches?
>
Sure, but I need to run out at the moment so it will take a few hours.

Cheers,

- Ben

> And more general, would it make sense to prevent common footfolk like
> me form creating branches outside the wip/* namespace? This ensures
> that I can always clean up a mess I make. I can still ask some of the
> super admins, like you, should I for some reason require a branch
> outside the wip/* namespace.
>
This sounds like a reasonable proposal to me.

Cheers,

- Ben

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