Re: [savannah-help-public] Request for adding/changing project “gwl”.

[Roel Janssen]

Bob Proulx <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Roel,
>
> Roel Janssen wrote:
>> Bob Proulx writes:
>> > I have added you to the project.  You will need to review and update
>> > pretty much all of the settings for the project.  And after the
>> > maintainers file is updated then the official status for the Savannah
>> > project can be updated.
>>
>> The maintainers file has been updated.  So I'd like to request changing
>> the status for the Savannah project.
>
> I have updated the status of the gwl project from non-GNU to GNU.  I
> have also walked through the various config sections changing them
> from nongnu to gnu too following the instructions here.  I may have
> missed something so it is always good to double check and keep an eye
> open for additional parts.
>
>   https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/NonGnuToGnuSysadmin/
>
> Please see this reference for information on making alpha and release
> uploads of your project.
>
>   https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Automated-FTP-Uploads.html
>
> Welcome to the GNU Project and Enjoy! :-)
> Bob

It seems that the Git repository is from the “old” gwl.  So I tried to
remove the master branch, but that didn't work:

address@hidden ~/sources/gwl$ git push -f savannah :master                      
                      
remote: error: By default, deleting the current branch is denied, because the 
next
remote: error: 'git clone' won't result in any file checked out, causing 
confusion.
remote: error: 
remote: error: You can set 'receive.denyDeleteCurrent' configuration variable to
remote: error: 'warn' or 'ignore' in the remote repository to allow deleting the
remote: error: current branch, with or without a warning message.
remote: error: 
remote: error: To squelch this message, you can set it to 'refuse'.
remote: error: refusing to delete the current branch: refs/heads/master
To ssh://git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/gwl.git
 ! [remote rejected] master (deletion of the current branch prohibited)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://address@hidden:/srv/git/gwl.git'

Then I tried to overwrite the commits:

address@hidden ~/sources/gwl$ git push --force savannah master                  
                      
Counting objects: 686, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (523/523), done.
Writing objects: 100% (686/686), 1.04 MiB | 21.79 MiB/s, done.
Total 686 (delta 386), reused 290 (delta 151)
remote: error: denying non-fast-forward refs/heads/master (you should pull 
first)
To ssh://git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/gwl.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://address@hidden:/srv/git/gwl.git'

That also didn't work.
Could we maybe just recreate an empty Git repository for gwl?

Thank you again for your time.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen