Re: [PATCH] Introduce receive.denyDeletes

Jan Krrrger [off-list ref] wrote:

Occasionally, it may be useful to prevent branches from getting deleted from
a centralized repository, particularly when no administrative access to the
server is available to undo it via reflog. It also makes
receive.denyNonFastForwards more useful if it is used for access control, since
it prevents force-updating refs by deleting and re-creating a ref.

...

 test_expect_success \
+	'pushing a delete should be denied with denyDeletes' '
+	cd victim &&
+	git config receive.denyDeletes true &&
+	git branch extra master &&
+	cd .. &&
+	test -f victim/.git/refs/heads/extra &&
+	git send-pack ./victim/.git/ :extra master && return 1

Hmm, that should be:

  test_must_fail git send-pack ./victim/.git/ :extra master

-- 
Shawn.