From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753491AbZBHJoa (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2009 04:44:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753235AbZBHJoH (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2009 04:44:07 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:41472 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753206AbZBHJoF (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2009 04:44:05 -0500 From: Junio C Hamano To: Matthieu Moy Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.2-rc0 References: <7vvdrlsyjm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:43:58 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Matthieu Moy's message of "Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:23:03 +0100") Message-ID: <7vvdrlz2jl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 06295874-F5C5-11DD-AE29-8B21C92D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthieu Moy writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes (draft) >> ================================ >> >> With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is >> currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose >> what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration >> variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. > > Perhaps this paragraph should tell _why_ this is a dangerous > operation. I considered it, but that is not what Release Notes is about. It should be a table-of-contents of the highlights in the new release. Interested parties can look at the documentation for gory details.