From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:55:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Removing options from build
Message-ID: <20090113215550.GE30404@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <1231883002.14181.27.camel@starfruit>

On 2009.01.13 13:43:22 -0800, 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.
> 
> Besides a vigorous flogging, we're looking at other ways to prevent this
> sort of thing from happening again; the option we've settled on is to
> remove the "--force" flag from our internal build of v1.6.1
> 
> I'm wondering if somebody could point me in the right direction to
> remove "--force" (safely) from the builtin-push.c and removing the
> "rebase" command (we've got no use for it, and would prefer it gone).

git help config

receive.denyNonFastForwards (to refuse non-fast-forwards, even with -f)
receive.denyDeletes (to stop users from working around the non-ff using
                     a delete + recreate operation)

Björn