Re: [PATCH] pull: abort if --ff-only is given and fast-forwarding is impossible

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 14, 2021, 17:19 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8s28yfsj.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BEqnTuDgC0Bb+feFj=vBB48wdb60thO+Pq3N0jL74jH8Q@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> However, since I'm commenting on this and the stat information appears
> to be important to you, note that there are also merge.stat and
> rebase.stat configuration variables for controlling whether those are
> shown at the end of merge and rebase operations.

True. It is troubling that people try to avoid fast-forward (which is a very cheap operation) and rebase their work on top of the other side (which could unnecessarily smudge their object store with pointless replaying of the commits) only because they want to avoid the informational messages *and* there is an easy way to squelch these messages. There is some gap in documentation?

Thanks.