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

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:03:28PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> 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.)

Ideally I'd rather not allow history-destructive changes without admin
moderation.  To the least, the current situation prevents beginners
mistakes.

> 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''?

I got seriously lazy and procrastinated this - but now it's done :)

-- 
Sylvain