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Re: Git push race condition?

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Mar 25, 2014, 14:22 UTC
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Scott Sandler <scott.m.sandler@gmail.com> writes:
> I'd like to see it happen again under these conditions and get that
> information, then enable receive.denyNonFastForwards explicitly just
> to be sure it's not force pushes, and see if it still happens.

To be really sure, you also have to set receive.denyDeletes to true. Otherwise, a workaround to perform a non-fast forward is to delete the branch, and re-create it somewhere else in history.

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Matthieu Moy
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