[Development] Please warn of force pushes...

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 07:16:22AM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On segunda-feira, 22 de abril de 2013 10.15.43, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > why exactly would you care? everyone working on the respective branch is
> > somehow involved into the rebase process. everyone else doesn't need to
> > care/can reset --hard if they actually have a checkout.
> 
> Because "everyone working" is somehow missing people who don't know that.
> 
so?

> If a branch is in the main repositories, everyone who cloned qtbase has it. 
> That means you have an undeterminate number of people who might be looking at 
> it. Do not rebase it.
> 
> No, really. Please don't rebase a branch in the main repositories.
> 
you didn't provide any reasons.

as far as i'm concerned, the push policy for all non-mainline branches
(in particular those without a CI) is entirely up to the discretion of
their owners.