From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Harris Subject: Re: Disallow amending published commits? Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:19:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <885649360903211056u38ff6cabxbe1a17d57faaa0c4@mail.gmail.com> <885649360903211549h751c19e6sbaa0e07a14413d19@mail.gmail.com> <885649360903212109v316f441fvea3f498e91c0059e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Git ML To: James Pickens X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 22 15:21:14 2009 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 1LlOY5-0000v6-BH for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:21:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753344AbZCVOTo convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:19:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753291AbZCVOTo (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:19:44 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.29]:37651 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752895AbZCVOTn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:19:43 -0400 Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 31so1758708yxl.1 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:19:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2rmgiSlwQ305BYTwW3VoAJCeIwWDLq9xguohyyQysKI=; b=Veh2Be1tONLEr8LUgo+UJ4c66lMq6ukO5NnTM5q3IC92rtDYUzPUQTg7f6eIqgMen0 twOisYkcLBcEk7eIJjtlQ1se+lph2RM9xXR6WTRDeDuChFA/ftWOfHp5wYQtQqYSR0aa aM7fWA3bIkiiEfmUf4qNnF8uX4cNOFsme8gn0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=TX7nDywcXiwnztDFJflmwd4rvr2hg9HRkcvrZ411PSJRJPwSIEx780V01/vQy5Xe2/ 77kIUOj8iVeyBOhxyzHZY70VfFm19oYT5gS8P5PasTVcyxeT/FtWGCtYQ8eF9TYkiw+T qYCDaYwYHN1HrrbizbzzswcRGvsQ8ml6Ws+8U= Received: by 10.90.78.14 with SMTP id a14mr278719agb.43.1237731581331; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:19:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <885649360903212109v316f441fvea3f498e91c0059e@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5c66d955bd3a3602 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. =A0Perhaps 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 pilo= t Git > on a fairly large project, where none of the users have Git experienc= e, and > many of them don't have much experience with any other version contro= l > system either. =A0I 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 an= ything > 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