Re: [PATCH] pull: abort if --ff-only is given and fast-forwarding is impossible

> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >> When we cannot fast-forward (i.e. we have our own development that
> >> is not in the tip of their history),
> >>
> >>  --ff-only would cause the operation fail
> >>  --ff would become no-op (as it merely allows fast-forwarding)
> >>  --no-ff would become no-op (as it merely forbids fast-forwarding)
> >>
> >> and the latter two case, we'd either merge or rebase (with possibly
> >> specified mode like --preserve-merges).  I thought the current
> >> documentation is already fairly clear on this point?
> >
> > git pull's --no-ff is documented to "create a merge commit in all
> > cases", and thus as worded, seems incompatible with rebasing to me.
> 
> It smells like a "too literally to be useful" interpretation of a
> pice of documentation that has no relevance to "pull --rebase" to
> me, though.  It comes from merge-options.txt and would not be
> relevant to "git pull --rebase" to begin with.