Rebasing of work branches allowed?

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2012, 16:30:31 schrieb Jaroslaw Staniek:
> On 15 February 2012 10:04, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> 
wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > in other projects I have got used to the habit that, when updating a
> > work
> > branch to the lastest changes in the master branch, to rather rebase the
> > work branch to the master branch instead of merging the commits from
> > it, to keep a clean history in the branch itself, which I have found
> > useful.
> > 
> > Is this approach allowed/supported for the Calligra repo? I would then
> > do that with "my" filters-karbon-cdr branch.
> > 
> > On other notes:
> > I accidentally pushed an old branch "CDRImport" to the official repo.
> > But it seems I cannot remove it again? Could someone with the proper
> > super-powers please help out?
> 
> Hi,
> I think you cannot edit history (rebase) once you made it publish
> because others might have fetched it already,
> i.e. you can rebase locally before you push; and this is what I do for
> the reason you expained.
> 
> So it's too late if you already pushed.

Sigh, I feared this answer, so that is the price to develop my cdr import 
filter in a branch "in the public". Okay, will then resist to get the latest 
master changes in my branch for now.

So, on the other note: who could remove that bogus branch "CDRImport"?

Cheers
Friedrich