Changes to branch management

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2014, Ben Cooksley wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As the other thread has gotten a bit congested with various threads, I
> thought I would split up the topics to make things a bit easier to
> manage.
>
> The first seems the least contentious: allowing all developers to
> delete branches on our mainline repositories, except for certain
> protected branches (like "master" and "KDE/*" for instance).
>
> Any suggestions or variations on this?
>
> Note: the protected branches really do need to be universal across all
> repositories to be effective - otherwise the effort required to add
> the protection will introduce an extremely high maintenance burden.

Would it be possible to add the Calligra/* release branches to that 
list, or should we better rename them toe KDE/*?

> I'll also add that there is never a risk of work being lost courtesy
> of the backup refs. The hooks automatically create these refs
> (including the unix time of the event) whenever a destructive event is
> made to a ref. The hooks will also explicitly prohibit any attempt to
> alter the backup refs - they're read only and untouchable.
>
> These can be manually fetched using "git fetch" if necessary to
> restore a branch which is mistakenly deleted.

That's reassuring :-)

Boud