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Re: Has anyone written a hook to block fast forward merges to a branch?

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 21, 2012, 20:43 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 03:32:10PM -0500, Neal Kreitzinger wrote:
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> On 3/21/2012 1:22 PM, Chris Patti wrote:
> >I know there are hooks out there to block various other kinds of
> >change, but I was wondering if anyone had specifically ever written
> >one to block fast forward merges.
> >
> Maybe git-merge --no-ff would also be helpful to "do what you want".

When I wrote my response, I assumed the intent was that people _should_ be using --no-ff, but that he wanted to enforce it via hook during a push to a central repository.

Reading it again, I'm not sure whether that is the case or not. If not, the disregard my original response. :)

-Peff
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