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That's some facepalm right here. That said, I do appreciate the reaction of the developer, taking responsibility for his mistake, starting remedial actions right away and discussing preventive measures for the future.

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And ditto the reaction of the community. No aggressive denunciations or vindictive chat - just calm and helpful trouble shooting. +1 for the culture they have created.

Let the programmer who hasn't done something dumb with a Git repo cast the first stone. I know I'm guilty as can be and surely I'm going to transgress in the future. It does kind of show a little bit of a need for a more formal permissions system for Git. Most organizations have something like this in place as policy but that doesn't prevent mistakes.

What are you supposed to do if jerks join your community? Excommunicate them?

There's a talk called "How to Protect Your Open Source Project From Poisonous People" [1] that offers some suggestions.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/vishnu/how-to-protect-yourhow-to-p...

Video: http://youtu.be/Q52kFL8zVoM

Messing up with git and apologizing publicly is hardly being a jerk IMHO.

He means none of them are being jerks - for instance a community of jerks might have responded to the announcement of a pretty inconvenient mistake by abusing the guy who made the mistake.

To clear it up, it was a question wondering how one would keep a community as jerk-free as the one they seem to have right now.

right, thanks!

Ummmm... I'm pretty sure that was not implied.

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