From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:19:08 GMT
Subject: Re: git merge --no-commit <branch>; does commit
Message-ID: <81b0412b0712131319h63609810m593f0e552d02a83c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.0.99999.0712132151080.5326@castor.milkiway.cos>

On 13/12/2007, Michael Dressel <MichaelTiloDressel@t-online.de> wrote:
> git merge --no-commit <branch> does "create" a commit. At lesat the
> head and index are moved to the new commit fetched from <branch>. Maybe
> that is because git was able to do a fast forward?

Yes. Because fast-forward is what it called: fast-forward.
It does not do any commits at all.