From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:19:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add receive.denyNonFastforwards config variable
Message-ID: <7vzmcudt3t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609210107140.19042@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> If receive.denyNonFastforwards is set to true, git-receive-pack will deny
> non fast-forwards, i.e. forced updates. Most notably, a push to a repository
> which has that flag set will fail.
>
> As a first user, 'git-init-db --shared' sets this flag, since in a shared
> setup, you are most unlikely to want forced pushes to succeed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

Looks good.  Care to do a handful more tasks before we forget?

 Documentation/git-init-db.txt
 Documentation/config.txt
 Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt
 t/t5400-send-pack.sh or a new test t/t5401-push-into-shared-repo.sh