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[Monotone-devel] Re: OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship
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Bruce Stephens |
Subject: |
[Monotone-devel] Re: OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship |
Date: |
Fri, 02 May 2008 10:49:19 +0100 |
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Koen Kooi <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> Well, git has this feature:
>
> "An example from man git-push:
> --force
> Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is not an
> ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. This flag disables the
> check. This can cause the remote repository to lose commits; use it
> with care."
>
> which I suspect will get used quite often "because the server didn't
> seem to respond".
You are mistaken. It can be valuable (which is why it's offered), but
is very rarely used in a way that causes the sorts of problems I
imagine you're envisaging. (For several reasons.)
Fundamentally, though, remember that the tools are intended to support
communities of developers.
If you end up having "git push --force" wars between feuding groups of
developers, that's a situation that's probably not going to be solved
just by using a different tool. (Or by configuring the git repository
to disallow updates made like this, which is entirely possible,
rendering --force impotent.)
[Monotone-devel] Re: OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship, Koen Kooi, 2008/05/02
[Monotone-devel] Re: OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship,
Bruce Stephens <=
[Monotone-devel] Re: OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship, Holger Freyther, 2008/05/04