From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: git config receive.denyNonFastForwards true on server? Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:13:35 +0100 Message-ID: <8738y1iavk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mww9jvtg.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358338425 19181 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2013 12:13:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:13:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 13:14:03 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-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 1TvRsX-0004I3-UG for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:14:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45425 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvRsH-0002sC-Dr for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:13:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59136) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvRsF-0002px-5U for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:13:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvRsD-0006PZ-KF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:13:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.105]:26935) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TvRsD-0006PN-DK for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:13:41 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,478,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="168652101" Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr (HELO pluto) ([80.67.176.83]) by mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 16 Jan 2013 13:13:39 +0100 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 27 =?utf-8?Q?Niv=C3=B4se?= an 221 de la =?utf-8?Q?R?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87mww9jvtg.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:55:55 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 192.134.164.105 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:15440 Archived-At: Hi, Andy Wingo skribis: > I was about to ask the savannah folks / gnu admins if they could change > the configuration for guile's repo to allow non-fast-forward pushes > (obviously with the --force or + flag). This would let me fix the > authorship in the recent PEG merge to master. It would also make it > easier to update a branch: you wouldn't have to delete it first and then > re-push. (This doesn't work with master because it is the default ref, > and there is another setting regarding deleting the default ref.) Yeah, I see. The only issue is to make sure non-fast-forward pushes don=E2=80=99t happen by mistake on the regular branches. But it=E2=80=99s = reasonable to say that we=E2=80=99re all sufficiently disciplined so that won=E2=80=99t h= appen. So yes, if you find it helpful, go ahead. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.