archer.git "master" deletion (+branches cleanup)

[Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>]

Hello Jim,

there was confusion with people trying to checkout "master" from archer.git
expecting it to do something - but there is no such single branch for Archer.

I tried to delete the "master" branch but I cannot:

$ git push archer :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://sourceware.org/git/archer.git
 ! [remote rejected] master (deletion of the current branch prohibited)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://sourceware.org/git/archer.git'

Could you please reconfigure it or also even delete the "master" branch there?
It works as expected on my local test git repo.  Checking out nothing by
default is IMO the best thing to do for archer.git.

(The tags are left over there, nobody is using them in Archer.)


Thanks,
Jan


These branches were in archer.git but not in gdb.git, they have been deleted:
05eb687839ea77a6df73f2daf1069b66bff635e6 archer
cd68314a88e272a6ad194a03b6ffd0b407233f4e origin

The branch gsoc-kayral-python was in archer.git but not in gdb.git, it has been
renamed to archer-gsoc-kayral-python.

These branches were both in archer.git and gdb.git but had different HEAD, they
have been deleted, their HEADs in archer.git were:
d9dea099c68b1afa498e129fa6549fe9eaa9a6bd FSF
b8aecb4fa2fe57717e0e910f9f52da6eae29a60f GDB_4_18
6d491d8ad9122891d1a48447e8c49702eb678921 SNAPSHOT
e1f8e721c1e05e78ae5450fa4b344ba404123905 binutils-2_18-branch
69b32b4370b606799932c18293635bdb49e40af5 cygnus
ef096d3a6c2efb862d80ace1b4c6888fc1da0161 gdb_6_8-branch
cc0bcadcc3b1ef30b04f31fe9ed2cdba846c6088 gdb_7_1-branch
de124f62dc888689a82bb63e77b4cca4ae96407a master
84727be194695038b2220724602a0582d9c81a6f reverse-20080717-branch

These branches were both in archer.git and gdb.git and had the same HEAD, they
have been deleted:
NET Z-emcb-cygwin_daemon add-fakeroots-dir binutils-2_10-branch
binutils-2_11-branch binutils-2_12-branch binutils-2_13-branch
binutils-2_14-branch binutils-2_15-branch binutils-2_16-branch
binutils-2_17-branch binutils-csl-2_17-branch binutils-csl-arm-2005q1-branch
binutils-csl-gxxpro-3_4-branch cagney-unwind-20030108-branch
cagney_bfdfile-20040213-branch cagney_bigcore-20040122-branch
cagney_convert-20030606-branch cagney_fileio-20030521-branch
cagney_frameaddr-20030403-branch cagney_framebase-20030326-branch
cagney_lazyid-20030317-branch cagney_offbyone-20030303-branch
cagney_regbuf-20020515-branch cagney_sysregs-20020825-branch
cagney_tramp-20040309-branch cagney_writestrings-20030508-branch
cagney_x86i386-20030821-branch carlton_dictionary-branch cgf-deleteme
cgf-dev-branch cr-0x5e6 cr-0x5ef cr-0x5f1 cr-0x9b cr-0x9c cr-0x9e
csl-arm-20050325-branch cv-branch cygwin_daemon dberlin-typesystem-branch
drow-cplus-branch drow-reverse-20070409-branch drow_intercu-20040221-branch
ezannoni_pie-20030916-branch ezannoni_pie-20040323-branch gdb-4_18-branch
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gdb_6_1-branch gdb_6_2-branch gdb_6_2-branch-UNNAMED-BRANCH gdb_6_3-branch
gdb_6_4-branch gdb_6_5-branch gdb_6_6-branch gdb_6_7-branch gdb_7_2-branch
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jimb-separate-debug-021223-branch jimb_gnu_v3_branch
kettenis-i386newframe-20030308-branch kettenis_i386newframe-20030406-branch
kettenis_i386newframe-20030419-branch kettenis_sparc-20030918-branch
kseitz_interps-20020528-branch master-UNNAMED-BRANCH mingw-std-ns-branch
mingwex msnyder-fork-checkpoint-branch msnyder-reverse-20060331-branch
msnyder-reverse-20060502-branch msnyder-reverse-20080609-branch
msnyder-tracepoint-checkpoint-branch newlib-autotools-branch
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offbyone-20030313-branch readline_4_3-import-branch readline_5_1-import-branch
sid-20020905-branch tcltk840-20020924-branch vendor