[cmake-developers] Automatically deleted branch when merged to next?

[Brad King]

On 05/21/2011 06:43 AM, Eric Noulard wrote:
> Just curious but my last stage-->next merge triggered this:
> 
> Fetching upstream next
> Merge topic 'CPackRPM-fixForAIX' into next
> 
> db45b10 CPack  make RPM work on AIX. fix #0012183 merge patch from Pasi Valminen
> 41c83c1 KWSys Nightly Date Stamp
> Pushing upstream next
> To git at cmake.org:cmake.git
> Deleting fully merged topic 'CPackRPM-fixForAIX' (db45b10) from stage.
> 
> The very last part is new to me.
> Was it done to avoid several may-be-wrong re-merge using the same branch?
> 
> Does it imply that a stage branch which has been merged to next is to
> be considered over?
> Say that I want to push my merged branch forward?
> Shall I push and merge again or shall I start over with a new branch
> using a different name?

Ignore it.  It was a bug on server's stage logic which I've now fixed.
Ironically I introduced the bug late last week while adding unit tests
for the stage scripts.  My fix includes a test for this case ;)

I also restored your topic.  It's still in next but not yet in master
as usual.

Thanks,
-Brad