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receive.denyNonNonFastForwards not denying force update

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JAJohn Arthorne <arthorne.eclipse@gmail.com>
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Aug 20, 2012, 13:33 UTC
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At eclipse.org we wanted all git repositories to disallow non-fastforward commits by default. So, we set receive.denyNonFastForwards=true as a system configuration setting. However, this does not prevent a non-fastforward force push. If we set the same configuration setting in the local repository configuration then it does prevent non-fastforward pushes.

For all the details see this bugzilla, particularly comment #59 where we finally narrowed this down:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=343150
This is on git version 1.7.4.1.
The Git book recommends setting this property at the system level:
http://git-scm.com/book/ch7-1.html (near the bottom)

Can someone confirm if this is intended behaviour or not. We ended up using a script to set a local config property in each repository, but with several hundred git repositories it would be much easier if the system setting was honoured.

Thanks, John Arthorne

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