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Fwd: how to have --no-ff be the default for all branch

Subject: Fwd: how to have --no-ff be the default for all branch

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jean-luc malet· Mar 6, 2009, 10:45 UTC · lore
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From: jean-luc malet <jeanluc.malet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Subject: how to have --no-ff be the default for all branch
To: git@vger.kernel.org

Hi all! I'm using git for a time now and the thing that annoyed me the most is that git "loose" branch information, ie if I have branch1 and master that I do dev on branch1 (let say 3 commit) and that I want to deliver on master, if there has not been any commit on master, when I do git checkout master git merge branch1 git branch -d branch1

then git resolve as fast forward and then make branch1 "disapear" (ie on gitk I can't notice just by looking at the tree that there was a branch there) the solution is to use git merge --no-ff branch1

I would like that it is the default for all branch and that I use --ff when I want to do fast forward merge I know that I can set it up for one branch git config add branch.master.mergeoption --no-ff but I want it to be the default no just for one branch but for all branch git config add branch.*.mergeoption --no-ff don't work....

how can I do that? thanks JLM

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-- KISS! (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) (garde le simple, imbécile!) "mais qu'est-ce que tu m'as pondu comme usine à gaz? fait des choses simples et qui marchent, espèce d'imbécile!" ----------------------------- "Si vous pensez que vous êtes trop petit pour changer quoique ce soit, essayez donc de dormir avec un moustique dans votre chambre." Betty Reese http://www.grainesdechangement.com/citations.htm

Jay Soffian· Mar 6, 2009, 17:01 UTC · re: jean-luc malet · lore

Re: how to have --no-ff be the default for all branch

2009/3/6 jean-luc malet <jeanluc.malet@gmail.com>:
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> I would like that it is the default for all branch and that I use --ff
> when I want to do fast forward merge
> I know that I can set it up for one branch
> git config add branch.master.mergeoption --no-ff
> but I want it to be the default no just for one branch but for all branch
> git config add branch.*.mergeoption --no-ff
> don't work....
>
> how can I do that?
Not currently possible. The best you can do currently is to make an alias.
It would be a fairly trivial patch though to support merge.options. :-)
j.

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