Re: [boost] [git] The any library does not pull cleanly because of a forced update on develop and master.

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] The any library does not pull cleanly because of a forced update on develop and master.
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-10 11:14:06

On 10 December 2013 15:45, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 10.12.2013 18:40, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> If there is not already a policy in place to prevent history rewriting
>> in public branches, we should have one.  And if there's a GitHub
>> mechanism for denying the privilege, it should be enabled.
>
>
> As I've said on Boost.Build mailing list, such a policy or mechanism shall
> only be in effect after
> everybody reviews results of the conversion for real, and is happy with
> them. The conversion was,
> to a degree, rushed, so we need a time to fix issues before we declare we're
> really done with
> the transition to git and start playing by git rules.

I think we also need to point predef and odeint's master and develop
branches at completely different branches in order to import their git
repositories. I don't think they should be required to merge in the
history converted from subversion.