Re: auto-merge after push?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 11, 2009, 21:03 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0905112302130.27348@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090511201705.GA21045@redhat.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

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> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:18:06PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > The thing is, a merge can fail.  And then you already need direct access 
> > to the working directory in question.
> > 
> > If you were actually talking about fast-forward pushes (because you did 
> > the merge locally already), this might help you:
> > 
> > 	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/110251
> 
> Sounds good. But it looks like this patch is unlikely to be merged, does 
> it not?

Unlikely to be merged by Junio?  Without success stories, certainly.

But you can do the same as I did: run your local Git with that patch. I am actually growing fonder and fonder of denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead. It works beautifully here.

Of course, I always know what I am doing.

Ciao, Dscho

P.S.: :-)