From: brian m. carlson Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:43:46 GMT Subject: Re: Git 2 force commits but Git 1 doesn't Message-ID: <20200622204346.GP6531@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> In-Reply-To: On 2020-06-22 at 20:30:06, Michael Ward wrote: > Versions in use are 2.27.2 and 1.8.3.1. This behavior is seen with regular > pushes. > > I'll look into the http-backend functionality. If that will help control > that, we'll definitely want to use that instead. What surprises me, though, > is that even with DAV a 1.8 client appears to work correctly in that it will > warn the user that their push is about to clobber the head, but 2.27 > doesn't. If you can provide a set of reproduction steps for this, I'd be happy to write a patch to fix it. We should do the right thing for non-force pushes in both cases. I will say that overall, few people use the DAV-based protocol, since it's significantly less efficient than the smart protocol, so it doesn't surprise me that there may be bugs there. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204