Re: failed to push

[Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, all of us old gitters know: 1) that you should not change
> published (pushed) history, 2) that commits are immutable, and 3) that
> amending a commit generates new commit with correction and therefore
> changes history.
>
> It is true that git documentation ("Git User's Manual", "Git Community
> Book", "Pro Git") can be lacking... unfortunately by the time somebody
> is knowledgeable enough to write git documentaions, he/she is usally
> used to git way of doing things, and the documentation might not be
> newbie-friendly.

I thought I smelt an easy documentation patch but the current help for
git commit --amend seems to cover it

"You should understand the implications of rewriting history if you
amend a commit that has already been published"

These sections [1],[2] of the git community book could probably do
with a note on the consequences or re-writing history. I'll see if I
can figure out how to submit a change.

[1] http://book.git-scm.com/4_undoing_in_git_-_reset,_checkout_and_revert.html
[2] http://book.git-scm.com/5_modifying_your_history.html

>Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org> writes:
>> Then please be kind enough to put a *CAUTION* button next to
>> the amend button and have it bring up something that gives you
>> a little warning.  GIT *could* have been written in a way that
>> causes the remote repo to become synced with my local repo,
>> but apparently it was not and there was not adequate warning.

Shouldn't be too hard to repeat the warning from git help commit. Just
not sure of what the least intrusive way to do it is (plus my tcl-fu
is weak).