Re: removing a bogus git branch on alioth

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 07/05/2013 09:25, Ralf Treinen a écrit :
> I am trying to push to alioth the removal of a bogus branch, but this
> is refused. 
> 
> % git push origin :master-experimental
> remote: *** Deleting a branch is not allowed in this repository
> remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master-experimental
> To git+ssh://git.debian.org//git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/bibtex2html.git
>  ! [remote rejected] master-experimental (hook declined)
> error: failed to push some refs to 'git+ssh://git.debian.org//git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/bibtex2html.git'
> 
> 
> Is this on purpose?

I guess this is some kind of safety measure. You can directly remove the
branch on the server.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane