Re: Pick the right default and stop warn on `git pull`

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 8:32 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 06:18:40PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> So an obvious thing we could do, if pull.mode is too much of a
>>> change, is to make "pull --rebase" codepath honor pull.ff as well,
>>> perhaps?  I.e. those who set pull.ff=only are saying that "please
>>> stop me when I have any local change---I want to be notified if my
>>> pull on this branch results in anything but a fast-forward from the
>>> upstream".
>>>
>>> And then making an unconfigured pull.ff to default to pull.ff=only
>>> may give a proper failure whether you merge or rebase.  I dunno.
>> Yeah, I would be perfectly happy with that (and it's in fact what I
>> _thought_ was happening before today's discussion).
>>
>> I do wonder if anybody has set:
>>
>>    pull.rebase=true
>>    pull.ff=only
>>
>> which would then refuse to rebase at all, and whether they would be
>> annoyed. I am scratching my head over why one would do that, though. It
>> is meaningful only if you usually rebase, but when you say "--no-rebase"
>> you want to make sure you do not create a merge commit. Which seems
>> weird.
> I think you are losing track of the goal.
>
> The goal is that *eventually*:
>
> 1. No warning is issued
> 2. No configuration is needed
> 3. The default behavior is sane.
>
> The whole point of "pull.rebase=ff-only" (aka. "pull.mode=ff-only")
> was to make it the *default*.
>
> If you make "pull.ff=only" the default, *and* you make "git pull
> --rebase" respect that, then "git pull --rebase" will fail by default
> (unless it's a fast-forward).
>
> What we really need is something like:
>
> 1. git pull # fail by default unless it's a fast-forward
> 2. git pull --merge # force a merge (unless it's a fast-forward,
> depending on pull.ff)
> 3. git pull --rebase # force a rebase (unless it's a fast-forward,
> depending on pull.ff)