Re: Removing options from build

On 2009.01.13 14:00:45 -0800, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 22:53 +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

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R. Tyler Ballance wrote:

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Besides a vigorous flogging, we're looking at other ways to prevent this
sort of thing from happening again; the option we've settled on is to
remove the "--force" flag from our internal build of v1.6.1

I'm wondering if somebody could point me in the right direction to
remove "--force" (safely) from the builtin-push.c and removing the
"rebase" command (we've got no use for it, and would prefer it gone).

IMHO your update (or pre-receive) hook should just disallow
non-fast-forward updates.

Don't merges count as non-fast-forward updates? We generate merge
commits with almost every merge, rarely do we actually have
fast-forwards anymore (highly active repository)

No, merges are "fast-forward". In rev-list terms:

git rev-list new_head..old_head ==> Empty

IOW: No commits are lost by the push.

Merges only add commits to the history, they don't remove anything.

Björn