Hi all,

I found by accident that you can force push on branches on our ACS/ASF repo.

So, I’m concerned that anyone could do a force push, sneak in changes on 
ACS/ASF branches; opensource projects have had issues with people changing 
histories, putting backdoors and whatnot, so I would like to avoid that. For 
example, I would like us to disable force-push(es) on our git repos to avoid a 
situation like  Jenkins had:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/jenkinsci-dev/force$20push/jenkinsci-dev/-myjRIPcVwU/mrwn8VkyXagJ

So, I requested the infra team [1] to disable force pushes on release and 
master branches because that made sense and I was told that they don’t allow 
force pushes on master (relief!) but not on release branches because it would 
be hard to track the release branch names. I asked them if we should disable 
force pushed on all branches at all and if they people want to do it, they can 
do it in their own private/github repos/forks.

So, I’m told that we need to discuss this issue and only after a 
decision/voting they would implement such a change? What do you think, what are 
the pros and cons of disabling force pushes and should we do it?

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8228


Regards,
Rohit Yadav
Software Architect, ShapeBlue
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