Strategies for push/merge problem?

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:51 +0200, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> We all heard that Matt is not interested in the push approach. Fair
> enough. So the question is, do sufficiently motivated people want to
> take this into their own hands? I think it's not that hard to do as a
> client and server extension, which could alleviate both the merge race
> and the mergeful history problems. But, of course, a legimitate
> question is if it stands a chance of getting official extension status
> (Matt?).

Doing merging on the server is not a good idea. Setting aside all the
security and resource usage and complexity issues, it means that the
resulting commit is not something anyone has ever even seen, let alone
tested. And now it's in your history permanently. Who's name goes on
that commit?

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