Git 1.7 and git push?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 18:08:37 +0100,
  Haïkel Guémar <karlthered at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 15/02/2010 17:37, Bruno Wolff III a écrit :
> > I saw that there is a change in the way git push works in 1.7.
> > Currently I only do simple things and a typical workflow is:
> > git pull
> > Make a few changes
> > git commit -a
> > git push
> > 
> > This normally does a fast forward update and avoids a merge.
> > Is there another way I should be doing this? Does the answer change for 1.7?
> 
> Check release notes, you can configure your remote repository to use old
> (unsafe) behavior.
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt
> Mercurial has a similar behaviour, they recommend privileging pull over
> push operations because of their asymmetric natures.

I don't control the remote repository. That would be fedorahosted in the
case I am asking about.