Re: Would a config var for --force-with-lease be useful?
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2018-08-27 20:09:09
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:
This was after/during a long discussion starting with: https://public-inbox.org/git/CACBZZX7MeX-6RHgh2Fa9+YL03mjxs8xmyE86HnVxBxjMYizcig@mail.gmail.com/ It appears the only patch that got in from that discussion was my f17d642d3b ("push: document & test --force-with-lease with multiple remotes", 2017-04-19) (https://github.com/git/git/commit/f17d642d3b)
Thanks for pointing at the old thread.
As far as our documentation is concerned, the invitation to improve
the situation, offered in "git push --help", is still valid:
Note that all forms other than `--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect>`
that specifies the expected current value of the ref explicitly are
still experimental and their semantics may change as we gain experience
with this feature.
But I do not think (and I did not think back then) there is a magic
bullet to make the lazy force-with-lease automatically safe for
everybody, so it may be time to declare that the lazy force-with-lease
was a failed experiment and move on, with a patch like the one
suggested last year in the message:
https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqq37a9fl8a.fsf_-_@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/