From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:43:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.2-rc0
Message-ID: <7vvdrlz2jl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqprhte3rs.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes (draft)
>> ================================
>>
>> With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is
>> currently checked out will be refused by default.  You can choose
>> what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration
>> variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository.
>
> Perhaps this paragraph should tell _why_ this is a dangerous
> operation.

I considered it, but that is not what Release Notes is about.  It should
be a table-of-contents of the highlights in the new release.  Interested
parties can look at the documentation for gory details.