Re: Caution when removing git branches

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 17:36, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 01/27/2011 11:29 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>
> >> Given that nobody is supposed to push temporary branches to the master
> >> repo anyway, an intended branch removal should be a pretty darn rare
> >> event. ?Now, our committers all seem to be pretty careful people, so
> >> I don't feel strongly about having extra security on this --- but if
> >> it's easy to do, it's probably a good idea.
> >>
> >
> > Pushing a local topic branch by mistake seems much more likely to me. Some
> > protection against that mightn't be a bad idea. Maybe for example a check on
> > the branch name?
> 
> Or for that we could just disable branch creation *completely*, and
> then turn off that restriction that one time / year that we actually
> create a branch?

Well, branch creation can always be undone --- branch removal seems like
the big problem because it can't.

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