[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] hooks: Fix checkbranch hook

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Feb 27 08:48:34 CET 2011


On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:26 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> There is nothing that prevents people from tagging the tree currently
> in subversion, but most of the time, only the release manager does any
> tagging.
>
> If you think that it's a likely problem that people create named
> branches by mistake, then we should have a hook.

I suspect the concern is that people may create named branches locally
as part of their own workflow, then mistakenly push those branches
instead of collapsing back to a single commit against the relevant
line of development.

Cheers,
Nick.

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