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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>,
	Drew Northup <n1xim.email@gmail.com>,
	Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	Kacper Kornet <draenog@pld-linux.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] push: update remote tags only with force
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:22:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v390ccoak.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEUsAPZtF-L5J_g1L5d44BKveoAnJ81PatX94fFS4FM=iW33KA@mail.gmail.com> (Chris Rorvick's message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:29:14 -0600")

Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com> writes:

>> "Do not update, only add new" may be a good feature, but at the same
>> time I have this suspicion that its usefulness may not necessarily
>> be limited to refs/tags/* hierarchy.
>>
>> I dunno.
>
> Are you suggesting allowing forwards for just refs/heads/*?

No, it is a nonsense to unconditionally forbid fast-forwards to refs
outside refs/heads/ hierarchy.

I was imagining a more general feature to allow the *user* to ask
Git not to fast-forward some refs (not limited to refs/tags/) during
a push.

If such a general feature were in place, you can think of your patch
as automatically making the user to ask Git not to fast-forward refs
in refs/tags/, which would be a mere special case of it.

And I was wondering if such a general feature makes sense.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-14 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-12  4:08 [PATCH v3 0/5] push: update remote tags only with force Chris Rorvick
2012-11-12  4:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] push: return reject reasons via a mask Chris Rorvick
2012-11-12  4:08 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] push: add advice for rejected tag reference Chris Rorvick
2012-11-12  4:08 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] push: flag updates Chris Rorvick
2012-11-12  4:08 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] push: flag updates that require force Chris Rorvick
2012-11-12  4:08 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] push: update remote tags only with force Chris Rorvick
2012-11-13 21:20 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] " Junio C Hamano
     [not found]   ` <CAEUsAPYvrR6WsVWCvwoEWA21gzL6Sib0sTyx-c_2tH=8ni69yQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-14  6:29     ` Chris Rorvick
2012-11-14  8:19       ` Kacper Kornet
2012-11-14 13:22       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-11-14 14:58         ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-11-14 17:32           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-14 23:43             ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-11-15  0:09             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-15  7:48               ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-11-15 16:50                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-13 23:58 ` Drew Northup

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