Re: Disallow amending published commits?

[Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:09 AM, James Pickens wrote:
> I think you understood the question perfectly, and your comments all make
> sense.  Perhaps I'm just being paranoid and this won't be a problem at all.
>
> A bit of background might help explain my paranoia: I'm about to pilot Git
> on a fairly large project, where none of the users have Git experience, and
> many of them don't have much experience with any other version control
> system either.  I had to fight hard to get this pilot approved, and a lot
> of people will be watching to see how it goes, so I'm trying to do anything
> I can to make sure it will be successful.

Ah, yes. I can understand your paranoia.

Most new users will stick to your 'cheat sheet', and never even do
enough research to learn that you can amend existing history, much
less try it. A few will dig through the docs and try everything at
least once. I admit it; I fall into the latter category. :-)

Peter Harris