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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: policy and mechanism for less-connected clients
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:34:36 -0700
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Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> And when you have shared push repositories, as long as users don't use
> the '+', in practice they can only add new changes.  And if you don't
> trust them not to use the '+' character in refspecs, are you really
> going to trust them not to introduce either bone-headed mistakes into
> the code?

Well, if you do not trust them, just set receive.denynonfastforwards
and they won't be able to.