From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: About git commits Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:15:47 -0800 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <118834.1454303747@olgas.newt.com> References: <878u37s6zl.fsf@petton.fr> <87twltjzdx.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <83io291pnl.fsf@gnu.org> <100495.1454273376@olgas.newt.com> <56AE7C83.6000306@yandex.ru> <87powhjqro.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <83egcx14kf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454303774 11997 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2016 05:16:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 01 06:16:04 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aQ6qI-00076b-GL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 06:16:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQ6qH-0006xa-Nz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45337) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQ6qE-0006xS-IE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:15:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQ6qD-0006Kd-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from tassie.newt.com ([66.135.33.59]:53384) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQ6q7-0006JY-DH; Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:15:51 -0500 Original-Received: from olgas.newt.com (c-50-161-94-13.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [50.161.94.13]) by tassie.newt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 35DF468029A; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:15:48 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by olgas.newt.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 42F30380FA2; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:15:47 -0800 (PST) In-reply-to: <83egcx14kf.fsf@gnu.org> Comments: In-reply-to Eli Zaretskii message dated "Mon, 01 Feb 2016 05:40:16 +0200." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.6+git; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 24.4.1 X-Image-URL: http://www.newt.com/wohler/images/bill-diving.png Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-ID: <118833.1454303747.1@olgas.newt.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 66.135.33.59 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199112 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Bill Wohler > > Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:03:23 -0800 > > > > Also, it would help clarify things if Nicolas described exactly how he > > fixed the commit messages. I'm assuming he used rebase on existing > > messages in the repository. > > No, he modified the ChangeLog file generated from Git log. OK, cool. > > p.s. to Eli: If the repository has receive.denyNonFastforwards and > > receive.denyDeletes set to true, then your comment about our history > > being immutable should be largely accurate and welcome. > > That's what Savannah does, yes. > > > However, can't a user still use git push -f to override those > > settings? > > No. Savannah rejects non-FF pushes, AFAIK. Additional protection through a hook I'll bet. Good. Thanks for the clarifications. -- Bill Wohler aka http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD