I take this to mean that my patch is no longer needed/wanted?
On 5/3/11 11:25 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I'm starting to suspect it might be simpler to add a new "[merge] no-ff"
>>> configuration item, like the existing "[merge] log".
>>
>> Surely
>>
>> [merge]
>> log = false
>> ff = false
>>
>> would be a lot simpler and probably far easier to explain.
>
> Yes, it is far simpler and easier to explain. I'll leave the tests and
> the commit log message to people who are more interested in this topic
> than I am ;-)
>
> Documentation/merge-config.txt | 6 ++++++
> builtin/merge.c | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
> index 8920258..2aa4408 100644
> --- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
> @@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ merge.defaultToUpstream::
> to their corresponding remote tracking branches, and the tips of
> these tracking branches are merged.
>
> +merge.ff::
> + Do not generate a merge commit if the merge resolved as a
> + fast-forward; only update the branch pointer instead. Setting
> + this to `false` would be equivalent to giving `--no-ff` from
> + the command line.
> +
> merge.log::
> In addition to branch names, populate the log message with at
> most the specified number of one-line descriptions from the
> diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
> index d171c63..5194f04 100644
> --- a/builtin/merge.c
> +++ b/builtin/merge.c
> @@ -541,6 +541,9 @@ static int git_merge_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
> if (is_bool && shortlog_len)
> shortlog_len = DEFAULT_MERGE_LOG_LEN;
> return 0;
> + } else if (!strcmp(k, "merge.ff")) {
> + allow_fast_forward = git_config_bool(k, v);
> + return 0;
> } else if (!strcmp(k, "merge.defaulttoupstream")) {
> default_to_upstream = git_config_bool(k, v);
> return 0;
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