From: David Madore <david+news@madore.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: suggestion for a simple addition: git update-ref --ff-only
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 00:18:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130301231859.GA334@achernar.madore.org> (raw)
Hi list,
I'd like to suggest a very simple, but IMHO quite useful, additional
option to git-update-ref: an option --ff-only which would cause the
command to refuse unless the current ref is an ancestor of the new
one.
The reason I think it would be useful: I occasionally wish to perform
a trivial (i.e., fast-forward) merge of some branch into another
(e.g., after a git-fetch) without checking it out. Now git-update-ref
is perfect for that, but there is always the possibility of getting
something wrong (which one would not have with git merge --ff-only,
but the latter requires checking out the branch), and this option
would avoid tedious verifications.
Happy hacking,
--
David A. Madore
( http://www.madore.org/~david/ )
next reply other threads:[~2013-03-01 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-01 23:18 David Madore [this message]
2013-03-01 23:33 ` suggestion for a simple addition: git update-ref --ff-only Junio C Hamano
2013-03-02 1:10 ` Jeff King
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