Re: PUSH_HEAD, was Re: disallowing push to currently checked-out branch

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:29:53PM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:

So both you and Junio have changed your mind since that thread then.
Because in that thread, you propose  receive.guardCurrentBranch, which
was quite similar to today's receive.denyCurrentBranch. Junio then
argues that treating just the checked-out branch as special, as
opposed to all local branches is not the right thing to do:

I have to admit, I found that thread a very interesting read, because I
somehow missed it the first time and it seemed the opposite of what
happened later.

So, I'm not sure what happened in the intervening time between the
receive.localBranches proposal and the receive.denyCurrentBranch
implementation that suddenly what is basically guardCurrentBranch
became a good idea.

I think what happened (partially) is that I never read the original,
then at GitTogether somebody (Sam?) was complaining about usability
issues, so I wrote the denyCurrentBranch patch. Why and how people
changed their minds is a mystery to me, though.

-Peff

PS I seem to have an uncanny knack for writing a patch, then finding out
that Dscho wrote the exact same patch months or years earlier. I think
this is the third time it has happened.