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[PATCH] pull: don't say that merge is "the default strategy"

From
Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 18, 2021, 15:43 UTC
Message-ID
<20211118154317.639118-1-alexhenrie24@gmail.com>

Git no longer has a default strategy for reconciling divergent branches, because there's no way for Git to know which strategy is appropriate in any particular situation.

The initially proposed version of commit 031e2f7ae195069d00d21cde906fce5b0318dbdd, "pull: abort by default when fast-forwarding is not possible", dropped this phrase from the message. It appears that leaving it in the message in the final version of the patch was accidental.

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/pull.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/pull.c b/builtin/pull.c
index 127798ba84..590f15bf9b 100644
--- a/builtin/pull.c
+++ b/builtin/pull.c
@@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ static void show_advice_pull_non_ff(void)
 		 "You can do so by running one of the following commands sometime before\n"
 		 "your next pull:\n"
 		 "\n"
-		 "  git config pull.rebase false  # merge (the default strategy)\n"
+		 "  git config pull.rebase false  # merge\n"
 		 "  git config pull.rebase true   # rebase\n"
 		 "  git config pull.ff only       # fast-forward only\n"
 		 "\n"
-- 
2.34.0
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  1. pull: don't say that merge is "the default strategy"Alex Henrie, Nov 18, 2021
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  4. Elijah NewrenNov 19, 2021
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