[llvm-dev] GitHub commits that aren't on any branch

[Tom Stellard via llvm-dev]

On 01/16/2020 02:29 AM, Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev wrote:
> I noticed today that there are some commits that get pushed upstream,
> but not to master or any other branch either.
> 
> For example:
> 
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d272d3a1885a82d6ccf5b3d5b6841f79d81e24e5
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/6762d53b66d9de18825f09f43c3d6c2b3ea95913
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/80f81325b8e8f0bed81a28dffb8eba526002f2b3
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/24b81434a056825f4e9dd3ef06bad7a2ef34f813
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/3191fa21be09d6e7352751f86626a2e8fb251555
> 
> This is confusing for everyone, because the Phabricator review gets
> closed with "this was committed" and the commit can be found on
> GitHub, but since it's not on any branch, it was really just pushed
> into the void.
> 
> The reason I noticed is that the commit emails for those get sent to
> the llvm-branch-commits list.
> 
> Is it possible to configure GitHub in some way that disallows pushing
> commits that don't go to any of the upstream branches?
> 

No, we can't do anything to prevent this.  If it's possible to
configure Phabricator to ignore these commits, then I think that's
the best solution for now.

-Tom
> Thanks,
> Hans
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