From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:33:23 GMT
Subject: Re: suggestion for a simple addition: git update-ref --ff-only
Message-ID: <7vehfyelvg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130301231859.GA334@achernar.madore.org>

David Madore <david+news@madore.org> writes:

> 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.