Re: Pitfalls in auto-fast-forwarding heads that are not checked out?

[John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>]

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> When I do git pull, git is careful to only update the branch I have
> checked out (if appropriate). It leaves any other branches that track
> branches on the remote that has just been fetched untouched. I always
> thought that at some point git pull would learn to evaluate those
> branches and auto-merge them if the merge is a ff.
>
> I would find that a natural bit of automation in git pull. Of course
> it would mean a change of semantics, existing scripts could be
> affected.

I agree.  I've been using this script for quite a while now:

<https://github.com/jszakmeister/etc/blob/master/git-addons/git-ffwd>

I've been pretty happy with it.  It's not of my own design, I picked
up from StackOverflow:

<http://stackoverflow.com/a/9076361/683080>

And made a couple of minor tweaks to cope with my configuration (I
have merge setup to not fast-forward merge by default).

-John