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From: "Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego.de>
To: Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merging tags does not fast-forward with git 1.7.9
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:06:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1328803601.3416.0.camel@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120209095415.GA19230@glitch>

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On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:54 +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   with the recent changes in tag merging (I updated git to 1.7.9),
> my usual "git merge v3.X-rcY" command does not fast-forward any more.
> Of course the initial head is something like "v3.X-rcZ" without any
> change so that it should (and usually did) fast-forward to the new head.
> 
> The editor is instead fired off and I have to fill the details of a
> merge commit, diverging from mainline as soon as I save and exit.
> 
> Is there any simple and clear explanation for this? Thank you.
> 
> cheers,
> Domenico
> 
> ps: I admit I didn't follow the details about tag signatures so probably
> I missed something that I shouldn't.

This was discussed recently

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/189825



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-09 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09  9:54 Merging tags does not fast-forward with git 1.7.9 Domenico Andreoli
2012-02-09 15:50 ` Dan Johnson
2012-02-09 16:04   ` Domenico Andreoli
2012-02-09 16:30     ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-09 16:06 ` Carlos Martín Nieto [this message]
2012-02-09 16:18   ` Domenico Andreoli
2012-02-09 18:05 ` Junio C Hamano

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