From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:53:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Removing options from build
Message-ID: <200901132253.15370.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1231883002.14181.27.camel@starfruit>

R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> 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).

IMHO your update (or pre-receive) hook should just disallow
non-fast-forward updates.

This doesn't really address git-rebase, but it will disallow pushing a
"harmfully" rebased branch since those are by definition non-ff.  Why
take away the option to correct a mistake in the last commit with 'git
rebase -i'?

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch