Re: [PATCH v6 5/7] pull: add merge-ff-only option

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 07:00:06PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

It is very typical for Git newcomers to inadvertently create merges and
worst; inadvertently pushing them. This is one of the reasons many
experienced users prefer to avoid 'git pull', and recommend newcomers to
avoid it as well.

To avoid these problems and keep 'git pull' useful, it has been
suggested that 'git pull' barfs by default if the merge is
non-fast-forward, which unfortunately would break backwards
compatibility.

This patch leaves everything in place to enable this new mode, but it
only gets enabled if the user specifically configures it; pull.mode =
merge-ff-only.

The subject and commit message also need “merge-ff-only” → “ff-only”.

Cheers,
Trevor

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