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Re: receive.denyCurrentBranch

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 8, 2009, 23:41 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0902090038550.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Jay Soffian wrote:
> If you had paid attention, you would have noticed that Mercurial did not 
> attempt to merge. Rather, it created a new branch head in the remote 
> repository.

So this is the "detached HEAD" idea. Which contradicts the law of the least surprise.

> Clearly users are confused about pushing into a checked-out branch. 
> Maybe making that impossible by default will be enough.

It should be clear that the equivalent of a central repository is a bare repository. And hopefully Junio's strategy will make that clearer, so I think this is the superior approach.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. George SpelvinFeb 8, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2009
  3. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2009
  4. Jay SoffianFeb 8, 2009
  5. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2009
  6. Jay SoffianFeb 8, 2009
  7. Jay SoffianFeb 8, 2009
  8. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2009
  10. Jay SoffianFeb 9, 2009
  11. Theodore TsoFeb 9, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2009
  13. Jay SoffianFeb 9, 2009
  14. Jay SoffianFeb 9, 2009
  15. Jakub NarebskiFeb 8, 2009

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