Creating xfce-4.6 branches on git don't work

[Mike Massonnet]

Reported in bugzilla, 5769.

2009/9/12 Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at xfce.org>:
> Hello,
>
> I just had like to expose the fact that for the project xfce4-vala (it
> concens also the other projects) I wasn't able to create a branch
> named xfce-4.6, creating branches with other names work however. The
> returned error is something like "non-fast-foward updates are not
> allowed for _xfce stable branches_".
>
> $ git push origin origin:refs/heads/xfce-4.6
> error: src refspec origin does not match any.
> error: failed to push some refs to
> 'ssh://mmassonnet@git.xfce.org/git/bindings/xfce4-vala'
> To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected.
> Merge the remote changes before pushing again.
> See 'non-fast forward' section of 'git push --help' for details.
>
> $ git branch xfce-4.6
> $ git checkout xfce-4.6
> $ git push
> Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
> Non-fast forward update not allowed for xfce stable branches.
> error: hooks/update exited with error code 1
> error: hook declined to update refs/heads/xfce-4.6
> To ssh://mmassonnet@git.xfce.org/git/bindings/xfce4-vala
>  ! [remote rejected] HEAD -> xfce-4.6 (hook declined)
> error: failed to push some refs to
> 'ssh://mmassonnet@git.xfce.org/git/bindings/xfce4-vala'
>
> --
> Mike
>



-- 
Mike