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JoshTriplett on Nov 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apache considered harmful

Git normally only allows you to edit unpublished history; the server can prohibit editing of published history. Similarly, svn allows history editing if the server permits it.

onedognight on Nov 23, 2011 [–]

See Fedora's git repository for an example of how to do this.

jhawk28 on Nov 23, 2011 | [–]

I believe they use gitolite to do this. (https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite)

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