Re: [boost] git reset and force push

Subject: Re: [boost] git reset and force push
From: Sam Kellett (samkellett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-07 10:44:33

On 7 October 2015 at 15:21, Raffi Enficiaud <raffi.enficiaud_at_[hidden]
> wrote:

> Le 07/10/15 15:56, András Kucsma a écrit :
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Please don't force push. According to Github there are 42 people who have
>> forked
>> boostorg/test. At least that many people can be affected in very
>> surprising
>> ways
>> and many more who're developing locally without a forked Github
>> repository.
>>
>> To have a nice clean history all the time you have to always work on
>> non-public
>> branches and merge to public branches (like develop) only once you're sure
>> your
>> change is ready to be public. Until you make it public, you do whatever
>> you
>> want
>> with the history.
>>
>> (btw, non-public branches can be branches published on Github, but not
>> master or
>> develop in case of boost)
>>
>> Please don't force push.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andras
>>
>
> Ok, ok :) so 42 against. Such a nice number BTW.

out of interest, what's wrong with just reverting the offending commits?