Re: Nuking the Cygwin packaging for 'chere'

Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin.applications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 27/08/2025 05:30, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> By mistake I replicated the author's git repository of chere into the 
> Cygwin repository.  How can I nuke that so I can push my own repo, which 
> just has a .cygport and patch file like most projects have?
> 
> I suspect a 'git reset' then 'git push' on a clone of the target repo 
> will fail because the reset would clear out the config, right?
> I'd appreciate any pointers.

This isn't something you can do, because the packaging repositories are 
configured to deny non-fastforward changes to the master branch

(i.e. only changes to master which contain the previous master commit 
are permitted); this configuration is in place for obvious reasons.

So the correct thing to do here is ask for help.

I have:

* created a new cygwin-apps repo under cygwin-apps, containing a copy of 
the repo.or.cz/chere.git repo [1]. (you should already have push rights 
to this as mgeisert, let me know if there are problems).

* removed the cygwin-apps repo under cygwin-packages you accidentally 
created (it will be created again on your first push)

[1] https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-apps/chere/
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