deny history overwrite

Signed-off-by: Ceki Gulcu <[email protected]>
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 uid   Ceki Gulcu <[email protected]>
 sub   2048R/7FBFA159 2012-04-26
 ```
+
+
+## Preventing commit history overwrite
+
+In order to prevent loss of commit history, developers of the project
+are highly encouraged to deny branch deletions or history overwrites
+by invoking the following two commands on their local copy of the
+repository.
+
+
+```
+git config receive.denyDelete true
+git config receive.denyNonFastForwards true
+```