Pushing a lot of commits to an old branch

[Andi Kleen]

Thomas Koenig via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> there is a branch I want to update. Git currently tells me
>
> Your branch is ahead of 'origin/devel/coarray_native' by 28906 commits.
> There are still a few ChangeLog entries to clean up, I'll make sure
> that contrib/gcc-changelog/git_check_commit.py passes before
> committing.
>
> After doing that, can I just do a "git push", or will this cause any bad
> effects like hanging servers etc?  I seem to remember there were some
> issues a while back.

I would just create a new branch coarray_native-2

Branches are cheap in git.

-Andi