I believe this is still in place, though I am not sure how we can verify this 
(without doing a force-push of course)

+Vinod

> One thing that wasn't clear from the INFRA announcement: are trunk,
> branch-* branches protected against force-pushes in the new world? If not,
> should we ask them to be locked up?
> 
> Thanks
> Karthik
> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <
> vino...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> As some of you have noticed, we have an update from ASF infra on git
>> branching policy: We no longer have a ASF wide mandate on disallowing
>> force-pushes on all branches / tags.
>> 
>> Summarizing information from the INFRA email for the sake of clarity in
>> the midst of recent confusion
>> - We now can do force pushes, and branch/tag deletion on any branch or
>> tag except refs/tags/rel
>> - Any force pushes will be annotated in the commit-email as “[Forced
>> Update!]” for the community to watch out for undesired force-pushes
>> - Only tags under refs/tags/rel are protected from force-push for the
>> sake of release-provenance: Essentially, the releases that community votes
>> on are archived in their entirety with the development history and we
>> cannot alter that once a tag is created. As one might expect.
>> 
>> What this means for us
>> - Stale branches: There are a few stale branches that got accumulated.
>>    — During this branch moratorium, origin/bracnh-2.8 got created (May be
>> as part of HDFS-8785, can’t say for sure)
>>    — A couple of stale branches that helped 2.6.1 release:
>> origin/sjlee/hdfs-merge and origin/ajisakaa/common-merge
>>    — I’ll wait till EOD tomorrow for any yays/nays and delete them
>> - Feature branch updates: Developers can now go rebase and force-push
>> their feature branches.
>> - Mainline branches: Mainline branches like trunk, branch-2 have always
>> been configured to avoid force-pushes. In general, force-push continues to
>> be recommended mainly for feature branches and definitely not on any
>> mainline branches from which we make releases.
>> - Release tags:
>>    — To follow ASF provenance policy, we will now push the final release
>> tags under refs/tags/rel. We will first push the RC tags under where they
>> reside now (refs/tags) and if the vote passes, the final tag will be
>> created under refs/tags/rel.
>>    — I’ll update our release wiki page
>> http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToRelease <
>> http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToRelease> with the same details once I
>> can get 2.7.2 release done using this updated process.
>> - Existing release tags:
>>    — There is a general recommendation from INFRA team to take all of our
>> existing release tags under "tags" and copy them to “rel”.
>>    — I’ll wait till EOD tomorrow for any yays/nays and copy existing
>> releases under refs/tags/rel following general recommendations.
>> 
>> Any comments / thoughts / questions welcome.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> +Vinod

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