On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:02:22PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Gavin Smith wrote: > > Texinfo is moving to git for its version control and I have pushed a > > conversion of its old SVN repository to Savannah. The main branch there > > is called "trunk". This should be changed to be called "master", as that > > is the standard name for git. There is already a branch called master > > but this is 10 years out of date, and was produced from an earlier > > conversion from CVS. I have tried to move the label of the "master" > > branch to the "trunk" branch, but this is not possible - "non-fast forward > > commits" are not allowed. Is it possible for an administrator to enable > > this? There is not really any point that I can see in keeping the > > cvs2git conversion there. > > Hearing no objections I have temporarily enabled non-fastforward > commits. You are free to go forth and --force push. :-)
The git repository is working fine now, so it would seem to be the right time to disable non-fastforward commits again, if you wanted to do that.
