Now I get it. Thanks for summing up your stance.

Pozdrawiam / With best regards,
Orzech

W dniu 07.04.2015 o 20:17, Ron W pisze:
> I am saying warn. The louder the better.
>
> Naturally, when (a) auto-sync is enabled, and (b) you have
> connectivity with your upstream, then it is POSSIBLE for the commit to
> be "blocked" before the "fork" is committed. BUT, even then, there is
> still a window of vulnerability for 2 (or more) commits to the same
> parent.
>
> These accidental "forks" can and should be detected and warnings
> issued. The louder the better. Everyone committing to the project
> should see the warning. This way, it is less likely to accidentally
> loose an orphaned commit.
>
> Also, an upstream automatically blocking an incoming commit is
> anathema to Fossil's underlying promise to preserve the history. While
> Fossil does have a shunning mechanism, it is driven by explicit human
> intervention. This was designed that way because shunning discards
> information.
>
> Far better to auto-add a special tag (via the existing mechanism for
> adding tags to a commit) and have BOTH warnings displayed when the tag
> is received and timeline provide special highlighting of commits with
> the special tag.

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