Re: [PATCH] pull: allow branch.<name>.rebase to override pull.ff=only

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> On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > >> So, I dunno.
> > >
> > > Agreed that if pull.ff=only is supposed to override all other options
> > > (except those on the command-line), this might be wrong. And `git pull
> > > --rebase` works in the scenario I described.
> >
> > Yeah, I view --ff-only as a safety measure for the user to say "my
> > workflow is to make sure I do not have anything locally cooking on
> > my branch when integrating with the other side, and stop me if I
> > somehow made a mistake".  If rebase or other options override, the
> > folks in the rebasing camp, unlike in the merging camp, cannot
> > benefit from such safety measure, which worries me.
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> Is there, then, an existing combination that means roughly to treat
> `git pull` with no other options like this:
> - if not rebasing, forbid merging and be equivalent to --ff-only
> - if rebasing is requested (because of branch.name.rebase or --rebase
> or …?), allow it
>
> In other words, something like a pull.merge=ff (or ff-only) meaning to
> apply the rules I've attempted to describe, in which case I would
> leave pull.ff unset?
>
> I suppose pull.rebase=true is close, but is not quite the same for me
> (I'd like to be warned when this would imply a non-fast-forward for a
> main branch, though the "rebasing" logs might be sufficient)…