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/
