From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] deny push to current branch of non-bare repo Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:37:35 -0500 Message-ID: <20081113053735.GA5343@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20081107220730.GA15942@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7v3ai3f7oa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20081108142756.GC17100@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vwsfeaqpa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20081109014926.GA31276@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20081112084412.GA3860@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Sam Vilain To: Kyle Moffett X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 13 06:40:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L0Uw8-0004in-28 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:40:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751023AbYKMFhi (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:37:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750957AbYKMFhi (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:37:38 -0500 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:2961 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750728AbYKMFhi (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:37:38 -0500 Received: (qmail 24859 invoked by uid 111); 13 Nov 2008 05:37:36 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:37:36 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:37:35 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:22:20AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > somebody to push something for me to test, they push directly to that > repo, and when I'm done playing with a previous run I just do: > > $ git checkout new/branch/to/test > $ make clean > $ ./configure > $ make > $ make check OK, I see how using a detached HEAD makes sense. But I think just going straight to a detached HEAD might make even more sense. With your proposed behavior, you need to be prepared to unexpectedly and asynchronously move to a detached HEAD at any time, so why not just start there in the first place? And then the "push to current branch" problem is neatly solved: you have no current branch. So: $ git checkout new/branch/to/test^0 $ make, configure, etc -Peff