[PATCH/RFC] Add some tips for contributors.

Fri Jul 23 15:00:50 CEST 2010

Vegard Øye <vegard_oye at hotmail.com> writes:

> On 2010-07-23 14:20, Štěpán Němec wrote:
>
>> What I see in `git log' output for that commit is a single huge line
>> instead of the normally formatted paragraph I see in Tim's message
>> (and no blank line between summary and the message proper).
>
> Oops. :-/
>
> One could use git rebase to rectify such mistakes. Unfortunately,
> Assembla's server has receive.denyNonFastForwards set to true,
> preventing rewriting of history. Changing such settings is not
> available to free members.

Well, you really should never rewrite history of a public repository
anyway. What you certainly _should_ do is double-check the local commits
before you push them to the repo. ;-)

Štěpán