Re: Use "git pull --ff-only" by default?

> Is there some way to make "git pull --ff-only" be the default?
> I could not find anything about this in "git config --help" and
> also the lack of a --no-ff-only option for git pull (it exists 
> for git merge) indicates that there is no such support.
> 
> I did considered the branch.<name>.mergeoptions configuration
> option, but it does not seem appropriate as it only applies to
> a specific branch, whereas I want it to apply to all branches
> by default.
> 
> Yes, I know I could do "git config alias.pl 'pull --ff-only'",
> but since my intensions are for this to be the default for all
> developers in our organization (most of whom have no git knowledge
> at all yet) to avoid unnecessary branches caused by the developers 
> hacking directly on master rather than a topic branch, I would 
> very much prefer a configuration option rather than an alias (as 
> I am unlikely to get the developers to remember to do "git pl" 
> instead of "git pull").

> My idea was to add something like merge.options and pull.options
> as configuration options (I want to be able to specify the options
> separately for pull and merge). However, I wanted throw this out
> here first before starting to hack away at the code, in case I
> missed something obvious, or if others find this to be an
> incredibly stupid idea...
>