From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 20:50:31 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Reject non-ff pulls by default Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130909202435.GJ2582@serenity.lan> John Keeping writes: > I think we need to make sure that we give instructions for how to go > back if the default hasn't done what you wanted. Something like this: > > Your pull did not fast-forward, so Git has merged '$upstream' into > your branch, which may not be correct for your project. If you > would rather rebase your changes, run > > git rebase > > See "pull.mode" in git-config(1) to suppress this message in the > future. Sounds good to me. One option is to display the warning on the command-line, and another option is to show it in COMMIT_EDITMSG (since we now default to showing it even for non-conflicted merges). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/