I think you could still delete remote tag and retag and push, instead of doing 
a force push?
But yeah, if this is needed we should keep things as it is.

I just wanted to bring this issue to everyone and see if we should do something 
about it.

On 01-Sep-2014, at 2:04 pm, Leo Simons <lsim...@schubergphilis.com> wrote:

> On Aug 30, 2014, at 3:15 AM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote:
>> You can ask/make the recommendation that the foundation disable force
>> pushes across all branches of all repositories at the foundation. That
>> may actually make a lot of sense. But I don't know that everyone will
>> agree. (I tend to concur, I can't think of a good reason one would do
>> a force push).
>
> You know I am a little surprised force push is allowed.
>
> When Paul first looked into setting up r/w git, a major foundation concern 
> was getting a sufficiently auditable revision history (a strong point of 
> svn), and IIRC quite some effort was spent locking things down [1].
>
> The fact it _isn’t_ fully locked down right now is a deviation from the 
> original plan. Seems pretty likely to me there was a use case that required 
> opening it up. I would guess tag moving to be a major argument, which I 
> _think_ requires forcing.
>
>
> cheers,
>
>
> Leo
>
> [1] http://apache.markmail.org/thread/7ztq2pwm6456zqmy
>

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