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> Is that new?

It's neither new nor novel. Even GitHub allows anyone to post a commit on a feature branch, regardless of who created it.

It's not a GitLab or GitHub feature. It's a Git feature: the ability to post a commit to a branch.

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I'm not sure about gitlab, but on github this is a distinct feature where you post a comment wrapped in three backticks and the language as suggestion. It'll format it as a diff that the author can one-click create a commit from.

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/suggested-cha...

create alias dont-fuck-with-my-branch

git reset --hard HEAD~1

git push -f

:)

Services like GitHub and GitLab support preventing changes that overwrite a repo's history, in addition to tracking history even when you force update a branch.

I was just joking but surely I can revert a commit on a feature branch, no?

You can revert and even force-update the branch to rewrite it's history, but GitHub still tracks the old commits and even lists in the PR the events that rewrote the branch history.

sorry for misunderstanding, I am NOT trying to hide the fact I reverted, hence the alias dont-fuck-with-my-branch :) and I was overall just joking…

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