Re: About git commits

[Bill Wohler]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> > From: Bill Wohler <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:03:23 -0800
> > 
> > Also, it would help clarify things if Nicolas described exactly how he
> > fixed the commit messages. I'm assuming he used rebase on existing
> > messages in the repository.
> 
> No, he modified the ChangeLog file generated from Git log.

OK, cool.

> > p.s. to Eli: If the repository has receive.denyNonFastforwards and
> > receive.denyDeletes set to true, then your comment about our history
> > being immutable should be largely accurate and welcome.
> 
> That's what Savannah does, yes.
> 
> > However, can't a user still use git push -f to override those
> > settings?
> 
> No.  Savannah rejects non-FF pushes, AFAIK.

Additional protection through a hook I'll bet. Good.

Thanks for the clarifications.

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