From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 15:03:34 GMT
Subject: Re: pull.rebase config vs. --ff-only on command line
Message-ID: <CABPp-BEHZcfZNL+PG1vmqXGf4Qs3eoULb4NDDgbmOB30HzJu_Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c62933fb-96b2-99f5-7169-372f486f6e39@aixigo.com>

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 7:52 AM Matthias Baumgarten
<matthias.baumgarten@aixigo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this is my first time contacting you guys and girls so I hope this mail
> achieves the expected standard. I've discovered the following behaviour
> of git:
>
> If pull.rebase is configured to true and git pull --ff-only is executed
> it seems like the config wins, i.e. issuing "Successfully rebased and
> updated refs/heads/...", which is not what I would expect. I always
> believed that command line options would overwrite configured options.
>
> Is my assumption that command line options always win wrong or is this a
> bug?

It's a bug.