git rebase OK on Fedora git branches?

[Jesse Keating]

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On 8/25/10 3:45 AM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
> Excerpts from Daniel P. Berrange's message of Wed Aug 25 11:08:16 +0200 2010:
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:34:36AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
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>>> On 8/24/10 6:43 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>> Is it OK to use 'git rebase -i' to compress my mistakes together into
>>>> a single working Fedora git commit?  (Provided I don't push things in
>>>> between or otherwise try to rewrite public history)
>>>>
>>>> I'm a bit confused by whether 'fedpkg commit', 'fedpkg build', 'fedpkg
>>>> push' etc are doing magic that will be broken by this.
>>>>
>>>> Rich.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You are free to do any sort of history altering actions you want prior
>>> to a push.  fedpkg will prevent you from trying to build something that
>>> hasn't been pushed unless you're doing a scratch build.  commit and push
>>> are very thin wrappers over the git equivs.
>>
>> Is there a server side hook/check to prevent accidentally pushing
>> non-fastforward commits ?
> 
> Standard git repositories deny pushing non fast-forward commits unless
> you --force the push. So yes I guess there is protection, I haven't
> tried if --force is allowed or not (I guess it should not be on allowed
> on standard branches)
> 
> 

Right now the ACL system prevents non-fast forward pushes, even with
- --force, for everything.  I have on my "white board" to look into
allowing non-fastforward changes within the user/* branch space, as well
as completely open ACLs within that branch space.  It's not the top of
my whiteboard yet though.

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Jesse Keating
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