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

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:03:28PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > 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.

Yes, that is totally true.  And the workaround I described is intuitive
and easy enough, so I don't really bother to have this changed.  The only
time where it might indeed become a nuisance is when you publish changes
on branches that are totally work in progress and change frequently or
are rebased often, etc.


> > 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 :)

Thanks!  Next time I'll simply open a Savannah support request for such
tiny things so that everyone can see how you are slacking!  ;-)


Regards,
 Thomas

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