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From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
To: Mike Linck <mgl@absolute-performance.com>
Cc: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions about branches in git
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:29:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B6201BC.9030800@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69b754db1001281317o69f8c3f9y412a8524407bacbf@mail.gmail.com>

Am 28.01.2010 22:17, schrieb Mike Linck:
> Well, even gitk can't show me the information I'm looking for if the
> parent branch ended up fast-forwarding to include the changes made in
> the topic branch.  As far as I can tell there is *no way* to tell what
> changes were made in a particular branch after a fast-forward has
> taken place, which seems to make it hard to organize fixes for
> specific topics/bugs/tickets.

You could disable fast forward merges using the --no-ff option. Then
git will always create a merge commit even if it could have done a
fast forward. This can be enabled permanently for a branch with
'git config branch.master.mergeoptions  "--no-ff"'. We use that at my
dayjob to preserve the branches after merging.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-28 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-28 18:44 Questions about branches in git Mike Linck
2010-01-28 20:03 ` Michael Witten
2010-01-28 21:17   ` Mike Linck
2010-01-28 21:29     ` Jens Lehmann [this message]
2010-01-28 21:38       ` Mike Linck
2010-01-28 23:07         ` Heiko Voigt
2010-01-29  0:03         ` Nanako Shiraishi
2010-01-29  3:03           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-28 22:04     ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-01-28 22:13       ` Eugene Sajine
2010-01-28 22:14       ` David Aguilar
2010-01-28 22:18     ` Michael Witten
2010-01-28 22:56       ` Mike Linck
2010-01-28 23:01         ` Michael Witten
2010-01-29 10:07   ` Peter Krefting
2010-01-28 20:20 ` Michael Witten
2010-01-28 20:35 ` Michael Witten
2010-01-28 23:00 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-01-28 23:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-29  1:16   ` Mike Linck
2010-01-29 10:06 ` Peter Krefting

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