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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-merge --no-commit commits
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:10:51 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bq99vx7t.fsf@roke.D-201> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0712020857m757c57cfr358a81e47f38fac8@mail.gmail.com>

"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> writes:

> I am using git 1.5.3.4 and just did the following (v1 and v2 are
> branches; v1 is a parent of v2):
> 
> git checkout v1
> git merge --no-commit v2
> 
> It simply fast-forwarded AND committed even though I explicitly told
> it not to. What gives?

The --no-commit option doesn't prevent fast-forward because
fast-forward doesn't really _create_ a commit (and -no-commit is
really about commit creation). It just advanced ref (branch head).

You probably wanted to use

  $ git merge --no-commit --no-ff v2

HTH
-- 
Jakub Narebski
ShadeHawk on #git
Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-02 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-02 16:57 git-merge --no-commit commits Vegard Nossum
2007-12-02 17:10 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-12-02 17:18   ` Vegard Nossum
2007-12-02 18:00     ` Jakub Narebski

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