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Re: suggestion for a simple addition: git update-ref --ff-only

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 1, 2013, 23:33 UTC
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David Madore <david+news@madore.org> writes:
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> Hi list,
>
> I'd like to suggest a very simple, but IMHO quite useful, additional
> option to git-update-ref: an option --ff-only which would cause the
> command to refuse unless the current ref is an ancestor of the new
> one.
Mild NAK.

What you want may be "git push . new_commit:refs/heads/foo", by the way.

The "update-ref" plumbing does not want any such frill.
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  2. Junio C HamanoMar 1, 2013
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