Re: Git 2 force commits but Git 1 doesn't

[Michael Ward <mward@smartsoftwareinc.com>]

This is assuming that the repository is completely empty to start. Setup:

git clone [repository] repo1
git clone [repository] repo2
cd repo1
echo "test1" > testfile
git add testfile
git commit -m 'initializing test from 1'
git push
cd ../repo2
git pull
cd ../repo1

Now for the issue:

echo "test1 update" >> testfile
git add testfile
git commit -m 'update test from 1'
git push
cd ../repo2
echo "test2" >> testfile
git commit -m 'update test from 2'
git push

At this point using the git 2.26 client if I pull in repo1, the commit 
with comment "update test from 1" is gone and the head is now the commit 
from 2 with "update test from 2" as the comment along with a borked 
tree. Using the 1.18 client, the push from 2 will prompt to pull first.

Michael

On 6/22/20 4:09 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2020-06-22 at 20:52:50, Michael Ward wrote:
>> Using the steps from my original email for how I had the repository set up
>> (any user authentication scheme works), clone 2 copies from that repository
>> (call them A and B). Make, commit, and push a change in A. Then make,
>> commit, and push a change in B (without first pulling). With the 1.8 client,
>> B will prompt that you're out of date and need to update. With the 2.26
>> client, B's commit will be pushed and be forced.
> I think we're going to need a more specific set of reproduction steps,
> because adding the following to t5540 succeeds (starting on branch
> "dev"):
>
> test_expect_success 'non-force push fails if not up to date' '
> 	git push origin dev &&
> 	git reset --hard HEAD^ &&
> 	: >path3 &&
> 	git add path3 &&
> 	test_tick &&
> 	git commit -m dev &&
> 	test_must_fail git push origin dev &&
> 	git push origin +dev
> '
>
> That means that this is working in at least some cases.  If you're still
> seeing this, can you provide a set of commands (e.g., a shell script) to
> initialize and create a new repository that triggers this, provided that
> "origin" refers to a suitable remote?