From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:50:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFD] Making "git push [--force/--delete]" safer?
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In-Reply-To: <CAF5DW8++sc2VYmdJEjbD_ue_wtDFj21vcyFzNWU0M+rAm2X0sQ@mail.gmail.com>

Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com> writes:

> I'm struggling to think of instances where I wouldn't want this
> CAS-like behaviour.  Wouldn't it be better to make it the default when
> pushing, and allowing the current behaviour with "git push
> --blind-force" or something?

Not until we run this in the wild for a while and the mechanism
proves to be useful without being too cumbersome to some population.

Then at a major version bump, we can start talking about enabling it
by default, allowing people to selectively disable it.