Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git: forcing non-fast-forward pushes

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:28:28PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 01:05:25AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > Has being able to force non-fast-forward pushes (yes, I'm aware of the
> > consequences of doing such pushes) been explicitly disabled in the
> > Savannah git setup or why does the following fail?  (Or is it me doing
> > something wrong at this late hour?)
> > 
> >     $ git push --force origin master
> >     Counting objects: 3, done.
> >     Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
> >     Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 428 bytes, done.
> >     Total 3 (delta 0), reused 2 (delta 0)
> >     To ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/hurd.git
> >      ! [remote rejected] master -> master (non-fast forward)
> >     error: denying non-fast forward refs/heads/master (you should pull 
> > first)
> >     error: failed to push some refs to 
> > 'ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/hurd.git'
> 
> This is disabled indeed.
> Shared Git repository don't allow that by default.

Aha, I see.  Hmm.  What is the rationale?  I mean, isn't the following
the exactly equivalent thing?  (I've done this just done now.)

    $ git push origin :master
    To ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/hurd.git
     - [deleted]         master
    $ git push origin master
    error: refs/remotes/origin/HEAD points nowhere!
    Counting objects: 3, done.
    Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
    Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 428 bytes, done.
    Total 3 (delta 0), reused 3 (delta 0)
    To ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/hurd.git
     * [new branch]      master -> master


Also, could you please have the top-level hurd.git repository send commit
emails to <address@hidden>, set its owner to <address@hidden> and
its description to ``Hurd meta package''?


Regards,
 Thomas

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