Re: [boost] git reset and force push

Subject: Re: [boost] git reset and force push
From: Raffi Enficiaud (raffi.enficiaud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-07 04:43:16

Le 07/10/15 09:58, Andrey Semashev a écrit :
>> You're saying this is not supported. Is that correct? Why not supporting
>> this? Is it by design?
>
> No, I'm not saying that the commit bot can't handle that (it probably
> can because someone already tried to rewrite history in the past and it
> kept working). I don't know for sure since I'm not maintaining the bot
> (or any testers, which may also be affected).
>
> I'm saying that rewriting history breaks pulling, which is what
> developers do when they update local git repos. It is a major nuisance
> when the history breaks as everyone has to repair their local branches.
>

Ok, but this occurs only if develop is checked out locally, which does 
not happen when we just do

git submodule update --recursive

So for people that have checked out boost.test develop branch, they 
would need to reset, for the others, it should work, isn't it?

git submodule update --force libs/test

should do the trick for those who have checked out boost.test[develop]. 
What do you think?

Sorry for insisting a bit on this path, but this is the shortest and 
cleanest path now for fixing the C++11 vs. C++03 issues of boost.test.
In the future, I think I will maintain a "develop-release" branch for 
being able to force push the topics on it (and have our own testing 
infrastructure on that).

Raffi