[pulseaudio-discuss] Update hook for selectively allowing non-fast-forward updates

[David Henningsson]

On 03/29/2013 12:26 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to rebase the next branch on master, but pushing a non-fast-forward
> update failed, because the receive.denyNonFastforwards option is set to true.
> If there are no objections, I'll soon remove that option and replace it with
> an update hook that will by default reject non-fast-forward updates, but will
> allow them for explicitly configured branches. The update hook script is
> attached.

Why? In case of the rebase you just use the -f flag.

 From http://git-scm.com/book/ch7-1.html:

receive.denyNonFastForwards

If you rebase commits that you’ve already pushed and then try to push 
again, or otherwise try to push a commit to a remote branch that doesn’t 
contain the commit that the remote branch currently points to, you’ll be 
denied. This is generally good policy; but in the case of the rebase, 
you may determine that you know what you’re doing and can force-update 
the remote branch with a -f flag to your push command.



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