From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:20:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC - draft #2] List of proposed future changes that are backward incompatible
Message-ID: <20090216032035.GA12235@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vskmff6fp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:42:50PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * git-push to update the checked out branch will be refused by default
> 
>   Make "git push" into a repository to update the branch that is checked
>   out fail by default.  You can countermand this default by setting a
>   configuration variable in the receiving repository.
> 
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007

It might be too subtle that "checked out" here implies a non-bare
repository (that is, somebody might think the HEAD branch in their bare
repo is "checked out"). So you might want to specifically mention
non-bare in the summary.

> * make core.quotepath=false the default

I have a comment on this, but I'll put it in a new thread. ;P

-Peff