Re: Caution when removing git branches

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/26/2011 11:26 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > For those of you using git, I wanted to point out that it is fairly easy
> > to remove git branches.  For example, I can easily remove a branch on
> > my github repository using:
> >
> >     $ git branch -d :branch_name
> >
> > I don't believe that is revertable.  What is scarey is that this could
> > be done on our 'origin' as well.
> >
> 
> The ability to remove branches is a feature. I strongly encourage you to 
> create topic branches for development work, then merge them onto the 
> main branch, and then delete them. I almost never work directly on, say, 
> REL9_0_STABLE or master, except for quite trivial changes.

Yes, I did that for the contrib-links patch I posted to my github, and
it was easy, and nice to be able to post incremental diffs as I modified
things.  I have just deleted that branch locally and on github, which
was easy, and got me thinking about accidental deletion on the origin.

> I thought we had some hooks on gitmaster to help prevent accidents like 
> inadvertent branch deletion.

That would be nice.

> I at least still keep rolling backups of the main repo. I'm sure I'm not 
> alone.

OK, thanks.

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