From: Hilco Wijbenga Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 02:58:09 GMT Subject: Re: Master and origin/master diverged Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v1ul6nbju.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On 22 June 2012 16:59, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Hilco Wijbenga 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.