Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Fwd: Replacing master branch for Texinfo git repository

[Gavin Smith]

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 but this is 10 years out of date, and was produced from an earlier 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.