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Re: Removing options from build

From
RBR. Tyler Ballance <tyler@slide.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2009, 22:18 UTC
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<1231885132.14181.38.camel@starfruit>
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<200901131606.04634.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 16:06 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
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> On Tuesday 2009 January 13 15:43:22 R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> >One of our developers "discovered" the --force option on `git push` and
> >used it without taking the appropriate care and hosed one of the project
> >branches we have running around in our central repository.
> 
> Reflogs should let you recover from this.
> 
> >Besides a vigorous flogging, we're looking at other ways to prevent this
> >sort of thing from happening again;
> 
> receive.denyNonFastForwards
>         If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which
>         is not a fast forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a
>         push, even if that push is forced. This configuration variable
>         is set when initializing a shared repository.

Looks good, thanks; sorry I missed it, didn't even think to look at the git-config(1) page for such an option.

I'm assuming this will actually cover the rebase -i case as well?
Cheers
-- 
-R. Tyler Ballance
Slide, Inc.
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  2. Thomas RastJan 13, 2009
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  4. R. Tyler BallanceJan 13, 2009
  5. Björn SteinbrinkJan 13, 2009
  6. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Jan 13, 2009
  7. Daniel BarkalowJan 13, 2009
  8. Björn SteinbrinkJan 13, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiJan 13, 2009
  10. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Jan 13, 2009
  11. R. Tyler BallanceJan 13, 2009
  12. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Jan 13, 2009

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