Re: pull.rebase config vs. --ff-only on command line

> Elijah Newren wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 7:52 AM Matthias Baumgarten
>> <matthias.baumgarten@aixigo.com> wrote:
>>> this is my first time contacting you guys and girls so I hope this mail
>>> achieves the expected standard. I've discovered the following behaviour
>>> of git:
>>>
>>> If pull.rebase is configured to true and git pull --ff-only is executed
>>> it seems like the config wins, i.e. issuing "Successfully rebased and
>>> updated refs/heads/...", which is not what I would expect. I always
>>> believed that command line options would overwrite configured options.
>>>
>>> Is my assumption that command line options always win wrong or is this a
>>> bug?
>>
>> It's a bug.
> 
> No it isn't.
> 
> Elijah is elevating to fact his opinion of what --ff-only should be
> changed to.
> 
> But it has not been changed. Today --ff-only is meant only for the merge
> mode of `git pull`, and like other merge-only options (e.g. --ff,
> --no-ff, and --squash) it's ignored in the rebase mode.
>