Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2012, #05; Thu, 12)

2012/4/16 Michał Kiedrowicz [off-list ref]:

So, the difference is that `git merge --no-ff HEAD^` used to work, now
it doesn't because we reduce_heads() only if we allow fast-forward (and
even though there is just one remote we merge with, parents contains
two commits). So what about that trivial patch instead (discarding our
previous patches)?

Yes, I suspect this might work.

And I like how reducing the remoteheads should also automatically fix
the case of the commit messages containing redundant information when
you give the same branch multiple times (assuming you have the whole
merge log thing enabled).

                     Linus