Re: Master and origin/master diverged

From: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 26, 2012, 02:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CAE1pOi1JU1QvYOJeV2qC3EN=b==HE1nn+DvXBGNro0mROctsvQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1ul6nbju.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 22 June 2012 16:59, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Some ways you can prevent it from happening again:
>>> (1) setting your canonical repo config to deny non-ff, and deny deletes:
>>> [receive]
>>>        denyDeletes = true
>>>        denyNonFastforwards = true
>>
>> I would *really* like to do that but I need access to the server for
>> that, right? Unfortunately, we use Unfuddle and that means no such
>> access. So no server config changes and no Git hooks.
>
> receive.denyNonFastforwards is a reasonable thing to ask for
> projects with a shared repository workflow, so I suspect hosting
> service providers may want to race adding support for it to win
> customers.  Have you asked them?

I agree and I was thinking of doing exactly that. So after your friendly nudge I sent them an email.

The first (very prompt) reply said they didn't support "custom hooks". When I explained that I was not asking for a custom hook but that I simply wanted a Git setting changed, I was informed (again, very promptly) that that was quite impossible. :-(

In my opinion, it should be fairly simple for them to create a web UI to set Git config settings (I can understand they do not want to do it manually) but they do not seem very interested. A bit surprising and certainly very disappointing.