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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, newren@gmail.com,
	phillip.wood123@gmail.com, avarab@gmail.com,
	felipe.contreras@gmail.com
Cc: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] pull: abort if --ff-only is given and fast-forwarding is impossible
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:55:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60f00611796d0_2e672085d@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210715050559.3371470-1-alexhenrie24@gmail.com>

Alex Henrie wrote:
> The warning about pulling without specifying how to reconcile divergent
> branches says that after setting pull.rebase to true, --ff-only can
> still be passed on the command line to require a fast-forward. Make that
> actually work.
> 
> Per the discussion on the mailing list, explicitly passing --rebase on
> the command line countermands pull.ff=only in the configuration or a
> previous --ff-only on the command line.
> 
> The --no-ff in `git pull --rebase --no-ff` is still ignored.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
> ---
> This is the code I was working on when Elijah sent his patch set to
> accomplish the same general goals. Mine is a less ambitious (and less
> invasive) approach, but I don't care which solution wins.

This is a better approach than Elijah's because it doesn't fail if both
pull.ff and pull.rebase are configured.

But there's still the problem that the new behavior cannot be
configured.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

      reply	other threads:[~2021-07-15  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-15  5:05 [PATCH v2] pull: abort if --ff-only is given and fast-forwarding is impossible Alex Henrie
2021-07-15  9:55 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]

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