From: Jay Soffian Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:01:25 GMT Subject: Re: how to have --no-ff be the default for all branch Message-ID: <76718490903060901j26308d42wfc288e522abee369@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1de9d39c0903060245u45373b8cq10d52f353c2214e2@mail.gmail.com> 2009/3/6 jean-luc malet : > I would like that it is the default for all branch and that I use --ff > when I want to do fast forward merge > I know that I can set it up for one branch > git config add branch.master.mergeoption --no-ff > but I want it to be the default no just for one branch but for all branch > git config add branch.*.mergeoption --no-ff > don't work.... > > how can I do that? Not currently possible. The best you can do currently is to make an alias. It would be a fairly trivial patch though to support merge.options. :-) j.