From: Johannes Sixt Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:21:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] push: document --lockref Message-ID: <51E3084D.2040504@kdbg.org> In-Reply-To: <7v61wdgdd1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Am 14.07.2013 21:17, schrieb Junio C Hamano: > Johannes Sixt writes: >> I actually think that by implying allow-no-ff in --lockref, you are >> hurting users who have configured a push refspec without a + prefix: >> They suddenly do not get the push denied when it is not a fast-forward >> anymore. > > Of course, that is why you should not use --lockref when you do not > have to. It is a tool to loosen "must fast-forward" in a more > controlled way than the traditional "--force". Sorry, IMO, this goes into a totally wrong direction, in particular, I think that this is going to close to door to make --lockref the default some day in a way that helps everyone. I think I have not understood your motivations for this feature, and I am not able spend more mindwidth on arguing back and forth to make it more usable (again: IMO). So, I bow out, and I appologize to have wasted so much of your time. -- Hannes