Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Bison: push -f

[Jim Meyering]

Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:19:31PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
>> Dear Hackers,
>>
>> I would like to have a means to perform push -f on *some* branches.  I'm
>> used to work with two directories of branches:
>>
>> - candidates/
>>   The topic branches.
>>
>> - perso/
>>   Where people can just "save" their work, whatever the state.
>>
>> The branches in these directories are really meant for work in progress,
>> so it is natural, normal, to have to push -f sometimes, especially when
>> you are finishing your changes, ready to make the clean branch that you
>> will typically merge in master.
>>
>> But I can't do that on bison.git.  Amusingly, I still can delete the
>> branch and create it again, so "push -f", unless I missed something, is
>> not really made impossible, just inconvenient.
>>
>> Can this policy (allowing push -f on *some* branches) be deployed?

Hi Akim and Sylvain,

This should do what you want:

    
http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt