From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About git commits
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:15:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <118834.1454303747@olgas.newt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83egcx14kf.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
> > 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.
--
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-01 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-30 10:21 About git commits Nicolas Petton
2016-01-31 19:57 ` Bill Wohler
2016-01-31 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-31 20:49 ` Bill Wohler
2016-01-31 21:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-31 23:03 ` Bill Wohler
2016-02-01 3:07 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-02-01 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-01 5:15 ` Bill Wohler [this message]
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