From: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 14:57:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/7] pull: add merge-ff-only option
Message-ID: <20140502145755.GG28634@odin.tremily.us>
In-Reply-To: <1398988808-29678-6-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 07:00:06PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> It is very typical for Git newcomers to inadvertently create merges and
> worst; inadvertently pushing them. This is one of the reasons many
> experienced users prefer to avoid 'git pull', and recommend newcomers to
> avoid it as well.
> 
> To avoid these problems and keep 'git pull' useful, it has been
> suggested that 'git pull' barfs by default if the merge is
> non-fast-forward, which unfortunately would break backwards
> compatibility.
> 
> This patch leaves everything in place to enable this new mode, but it
> only gets enabled if the user specifically configures it; pull.mode =
> merge-ff-only.

The subject and commit message also need “merge-ff-only” → “ff-only”.

Cheers,
Trevor

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