Re: Forcing --no-ff on pull

From: Lars Hjemli <lh@elementstorage.no>
Date: Dec 9, 2008, 10:31 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580812090231u28076844nf5a9225349c20801@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1228817565.18611.54.camel@starfruit.local>

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:12, R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@slide.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:49 +0100, Lars Hjemli wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:34, R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@slide.com> wrote:
>> > Is there a header macro I can define or a config option I could define
>> > to make --no-ff on `git pull` implicit instead of explicit?
>>
>> Try this:
>> $ git config branch.stable.mergeoptions "--no-ff"
>
> I recall stumbling across this a while ago looking at the git-config(1)
> man page, but this isn't /quite/ what we need.
>
> I'm talking about forcing for *every* pull, it's a safe assumption to
> make that we want a merge commit every time somebody fast-forwards a
> branch.

$ git config alias.xpull "pull --no-ff" ?

But are you sure you never want a fast-forward on _any_ branch? I use --no-ff unconditionally on the master and stable branches as $dayjob, to make sure that the merging of feature/bugfix-branches are explicitly noted in history, but I almost never use it on other branches.

-- larsh