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  19 <p>The <tt>mob</tt> account (the name a tribute to the paper
  20 <a href="http://www.dreamsongs.com/MobSoftware.html">Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code</a>)
  21 is.a way to enable <em>anonymous push access</em> for your project.
  22 This is largely an experiment and may be scrapped in the future if
  23 it will not get widespread use, but I think it's an interesting try.
  24 The idea is to provide unmoderated <em>side</em> channel for random
  25 contributors to work on a project, coming from the same place as
  26 e.g. Wikipedia - that given enough interested people, the quality
  27 will grow rapidly and occassional "vandalism" will get fixed quickly.
  28 Of course this may not work nearly so well for software, but here
  29 we are, to give it a try.</p>
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  31 <h2>For Repository Admins</h2>
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  33 <p>How it works? First, you need to add the <tt>mob</tt> user to the
  34 list of users allowed to push in your project. <tt>mob</tt> is a
  35 keyless, passwordless user that anyone can use to push, without
  36 any special setup. <strong>But</strong> this does not mean that
  37 your project is now in the hands of raging mindless mob! The <tt>mob</tt>
  38 user has a special restriction: it can push only to an existing
  39 <tt>mob</tt> branch. This means that the second step you need to take
  40 is to create a <tt>mob</tt> branch in the repository (e.g.
  41 <code>git checkout -b mob
  42         &amp;&amp; git push origin mob</code>). Then the <tt>mob</tt> user
  43 will be able to push to that and only that branch, and it won't be
  44 able to push whatsoever until you take the second step.</p>
  45
  46 <p>To sum it up: Anonymous pushes are allowed <em>only</em> to the <tt>mob</tt>
  47 branch and <em>only</em> if you add a <tt>mob</tt> user and do an initial
  48 pushout of the <tt>mob</tt> branch.</p>
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  50 <h2>For Users</h2>
  51
  52 <p>After cloning the repository, do <code>git checkout mob</code> to move to the
  53 <tt>mob</tt> branch.</p>
  54
  55 <p><strong>Note that you are taking a huge security risk on yourself
  56         if you just blindly grab the mob branch and run it on your
  57         system.</strong></p>
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  59 <h2>For Developers</h2>
  60
  61 <p>Just commit on the <tt>mob</tt> branch you've checked out and <code>git
  62 push</code> when the time is ripe.   Have fun and enjoy, you are making the
  63 history!</p>
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