Re: git merge branch --no-commit does commit fast forward merges

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 17, 2016, 23:52 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xqpqc1Km842QF_NwXUzjFVTQCwmQU3L12EakDjzMTFk2w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <874mb0kkkk.fsf@gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Christoph Paulik <cpaulik@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi Git Mailinglist,
> git merge branch --no-commit does commit fast forward merges leaving users
> no way to change the merge results. The command only works as expected when
> also adding the --no-ff flag. Looking at the help text of the --no-commit
> flag I think that this might be a unintended.
> I've tested this on git 2.8.0.
>
> This bug was first reported to magit
> (https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2620) whose maintainer then suggested
> that it might be a git bug.
>
> Best regards,
> Christoph
>

To be fair, the user can undo it with "git reset HEAD@{1}" I believe?

Thanks, Jake