[llvm-dev] Accidental Remote Branches Created on Github

[Mehdi AMINI via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 5:56 PM Mara Sophie Grosch via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> This happening was actually a big fear for me when I got commit access,
> especially since I'm working on a fork for my hobby osdev project, not at
> all ready for upstreaming it - one wrong git push away
>
> Seeing this happening to other people is a bit of a relief
>
> Is it possible to configure GitHub to forbid that? Like everything except
> the normal branches being protected from pushes?
>

Unfortunately not: there is a "branch protection" mechanism on GitHub but
it applies only to branches after they are created as far as I know.

Pushing a random branch has little consequence, it is easy to delete:
pushing the wrong kind of things to the main branch would be more annoying
and hard-to-impossible to recover from.

Cheers,

-- 
Mehdi



>
> Mara
>
> Am 6. November 2021 00:48:49 UTC schrieb Luke Benes via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>:
> >A branch containing the D112590 patch was accidentally pushed to GitHub:
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/efb284c07e
> >
> >In the past couple of weeks, this also happened for
> >https://reviews.llvm.org/D107347
> >and
> >https://reviews.llvm.org/D108319
> >
> >This seems to be happening a lot recently. Is there a problem with the
> instructions to commit patches?
> >
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