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Doc update. * ab/push-cas-doc-n-test: push: document & test --force-with-lease with multiple remotes
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"--no-force-with-lease" will cancel all the previous --force-with-lease on the
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command line.
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A general note on safety: supplying this option without an expected
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value, i.e. as `--force-with-lease` or `--force-with-lease=<refname>`
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interacts very badly with anything that implicitly runs `git fetch` on
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the remote to be pushed to in the background, e.g. `git fetch origin`
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on your repository in a cronjob.
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The protection it offers over `--force` is ensuring that subsequent
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changes your work wasn't based on aren't clobbered, but this is
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trivially defeated if some background process is updating refs in the
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background. We don't have anything except the remote tracking info to
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go by as a heuristic for refs you're expected to have seen & are
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willing to clobber.
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If your editor or some other system is running `git fetch` in the
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background for you a way to mitigate this is to simply set up another
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remote:
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git remote add origin-push $(git config remote.origin.url)
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git fetch origin-push
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Now when the background process runs `git fetch origin` the references
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on `origin-push` won't be updated, and thus commands like:
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git push --force-with-lease origin-push
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Will fail unless you manually run `git fetch origin-push`. This method
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is of course entirely defeated by something that runs `git fetch
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--all`, in that case you'd need to either disable it or do something
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more tedious like:
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git fetch # update 'master' from remote
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git tag base master # mark our base point
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git rebase -i master # rewrite some commits
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git push --force-with-lease=master:base master:master
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I.e. create a `base` tag for versions of the upstream code that you've
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seen and are willing to overwrite, then rewrite history, and finally
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force push changes to `master` if the remote version is still at
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`base`, regardless of what your local `remotes/origin/master` has been
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updated to in the background.
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-f::
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--force::
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test_expect_success 'background updates of REMOTE can be mitigated with a non-updated REMOTE-push' '
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rm -rf src dst &&
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git init --bare src.bare &&
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test_when_finished "rm -rf src.bare" &&
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git clone --no-local src.bare dst &&
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test_when_finished "rm -rf dst" &&
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(
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cd dst &&
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test_commit G &&
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git remote add origin-push ../src.bare &&
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git push origin-push master:master
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) &&
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git clone --no-local src.bare dst2 &&
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test_when_finished "rm -rf dst2" &&
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cd dst2 &&
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test_commit H &&
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git push
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) &&
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cd dst &&
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test_commit I &&
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git fetch origin &&
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test_must_fail git push --force-with-lease origin-push &&
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git fetch origin-push &&
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git push --force-with-lease origin-push
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)
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'
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test_done
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