Re: scratch/igc as a feature branch [was: Re: igc: trying to chase a crash]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
> Cc: chad <yandros@gmail.com>,  Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 05:18:08 -0500
> 
> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >> Absolutely, still I think few things are probably really low cost (the
> >> feature branch comes to my mind).
> >>
> >
> > Maintainers could just decide to do it, cough, cough :-).
> 
> Maintainers could decide autonomously, but IMO is more about developers
> of that branch being okay with the decision.  The implications are,
> other than the name change, not being able to force push.
> 
> That said not only I'm okay with having scratch/icg being pushed as
> feature/icg, but I long time suggested that :)

The question is indeed what kind of trouble this could cause.  If it
loses the history, I wouldn't do it, since the fact that it's under
scratch/ is not a catastrophe, IMO.