From e454d28282e5db980d5be7afb3a5894b9ac9b35c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ceki Gulcu <ceki@qos.ch>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 12:02:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] deny history overwrite

Signed-off-by: Ceki Gulcu <ceki@qos.ch>
---
 SECURITY.md | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/SECURITY.md b/SECURITY.md
index df65dd44d..2c2a43650 100644
--- a/SECURITY.md
+++ b/SECURITY.md
@@ -21,3 +21,17 @@ Key fingerprint = 475F 3B8E 59E6 E63A A780  6748 2C7B 12F2 A511 E325
 uid   Ceki Gulcu <ceki@qos.ch>
 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
+```
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