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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git merge --no-commit <branch>; does commit
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:19:08 +0100
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On 13/12/2007, Michael Dressel <MichaelTiloDressel@t-online.de> wrote:
> git merge --no-commit <branch> does "create" a commit. At lesat the
> head and index are moved to the new commit fetched from <branch>. Maybe
> that is because git was able to do a fast forward?

Yes. Because fast-forward is what it called: fast-forward.
It does not do any commits at all.