Re: Updating to latest Bioconductor release

[Roel Janssen]

On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 17:18 +0100, zimoun wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 16:57, Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > My bad, I jumped to a conclusion too quickly. :)
> 
> No worries. :-)
> 
> 
> > So, *something* removed my commits to the wip-r branch. Is it some
> > kind
> > of automation that syncs the Github and the Savannah branches?
> 
> Which upstream?
> I have no access on Savannah.  And I think you could should there.
> My wip-r branch on my personal GitHub account, no automation. 
> Ricardo
> did couple of days ago: fetch my branch and push it to Savannah. 
> Then
> they reported a tiny mistake that I corrected on my branch, by
> rewriting the history since it is WIP.  It was before you have
> started
> to work on, I guess.
> 
> To be concrete, the last commit on my branch is 9 days ago.  And the
> last commit on Savannah wip-r is 30th Otc.

Yeah, because mine got removed.

> > The good news is that in my local checkout I've fixed the build
> > problem
> > with r-rhdf5lib, so I should be able to build the remaining
> > packages
> > this evening.
> 
> Really cool!  Thank you.
> 
> 
> > I am hesitant to push it to the "wip-r" branch, because it seems
> > pointless. :)  So where can I push my updates to?
> 
> Please push your changes to wip-r on Savannah, rewriting the history
> is fine with me.  Then Cuirass will rebuild everything, check.  Then
> we can merge to master.

Well, they got removed from Savannah. Now I get this when I try to
push:
$ git push -f origin wip-r
Enumerating objects: 1599, done.
Counting objects: 100% (1599/1599), done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (362/362), done.
Writing objects: 100% (1590/1590), 359.31 KiB | 14.37 MiB/s, done.
Total 1590 (delta 1271), reused 1545 (delta 1228), pack-reused 0
remote: error: denying non-fast-forward refs/heads/wip-r (you should
pull first)
To git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/guix.git
 ! [remote rejected]       wip-r -> wip-r (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to
'git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/guix.git'

So, that's not going to work. 
Perhaps @Ricardo knows more about the setup of the "wip-r" branch.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen