From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: preferring mercurial Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:54:57 +0100 Message-ID: <87ob3jwr1q.fsf@engster.org> References: <3905544.suqMZffgM5@descartes> <874n5d6whz.fsf@gaia.iap.fr> <87iottf4fe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <1389366228.5784.14.camel@Iris> <8738kvfxtj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389383716 19719 80.91.229.3 (10 Jan 2014 19:55:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld , Jordi =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guti=E9rrez?= Hermoso , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Orieux , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Neal Becker To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 10 20:55:22 2014 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 1W1iAn-0006hl-D6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:55:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1iAn-0007L6-0v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:55:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57001) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1iAf-0007J8-6T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:55:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1iAZ-00017K-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:55:09 -0500 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:38251) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1iAZ-00014S-BV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:55:03 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=nF5m/ThPFPV5Tr/ZNawff6RdSk6IKfv0xfMoQ+RYHZI=; b=LbnoBdovTtPg15387an019sAnmp/y0xUNkukxix7a3jRXTPzAgCntT2OwptpW4lg+m9Cp2bB5lHynQ6NIrLCRjdCuwP+dLKxKYPJJtbqM51T85p8nT5aBJh+M4iWKPgl; Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-043-217.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.43.217] helo=spaten) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W1iAW-0006br-5v; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:55:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <8738kvfxtj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sat, 11 Jan 2014 04:20:40 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Jordi =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guti=E9rrez?= Hermoso , =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld , Neal Becker , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Orieux , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.45.97.173 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:168037 Archived-At: Stephen J. Turnbull writes: > Jordi Guti=E9rrez Hermoso writes: > > > Nothing has more respect for history than git. > >=20 > > This isn't very respectful of history: > >=20 > > http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/11/use-the-force/ > > First, note that the culprit, Gerrit, does not use git to access git > repos, and by *default* does push --force.=20 Also note that they could have quickly fixed this with the reflog if they would host the repository themselves and not on Github; to be fair, Github provided the reflog pretty quick (Jenkins is a pretty popular project...). Also, if you have direct access to the repo, you can easily block force pushes on branches in the first place. So if anything, this incident was more a reminder that you really should have full control over your main repository. -David