From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:32:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Switch receive.denyCurrentBranch to "refuse"
Message-ID: <7v1vuhkzmp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1233558035.20131.72.camel@maia.lan>

Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> writes:

> The other affects
> a small number of users who are doing something which is labeled in many
> places as a bad thing to want to do.

Sorry, but I do not agree with this.

What is bad is to push into a repository that is used for editing.  That
is labelled as a bad thing to want to do.

It is often the easiest to push and then run "reset --hard" (perhaps from
the post-update script) to propagate your change to a repository that is
not usually used for editing.  E.g. that has always been the way I update
my private repository at k.org that I use for final testing before pushing
out the results that I built and tested on my personal machine.  People
who have live web pages served from a checkout do that, too.  It is not a
bad thing to do at all, and you can find many instructions with google
without spending a lot of time to do exactly that.

    http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/7/1/2315924
    http://utsl.gen.nz/git/post-update
    http://groups.google.com/group/sl-ugr/browse_thread/thread/04e4c4bd6ce174af