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From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] make pull.ff=true override merge.ff
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:59:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f80d59c142b64c56fe7159452d4d10e3@www.dscho.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1431510740-9710-1-git-send-email-pyokagan@gmail.com>

Hi Paul,

On 2015-05-13 11:52, Paul Tan wrote:
> Since b814da8 (pull: add pull.ff configuration, 2014-01-15), running
> git-pull with the configuration pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is
> equivalent to passing --no-ff and --ff-only to git-merge. However, if
> pull.ff=true, no switch is passed to git-merge. This leads to the
> confusing behavior where pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is able to
> override merge.ff, while pull.ff=true is unable to.
> 
> This patch series adds a failing test to demonstrates the above, and fixes it.
> 
> The documentation is also tweaked to clarify that pull.ff is meant to override
> merge.ff.
> 
> The last patch makes pull.ff consistent with merge.ff by supporting the config
> aliases of true and false (on, off, 0, 1).

Looks very good!

Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Ciao,
Dscho

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-14 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-13  9:52 [PATCH 0/4] make pull.ff=true override merge.ff Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] t7601: test for pull.ff=true overrides merge.ff=false Paul Tan
2015-05-14 13:06   ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-14 16:45     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-14 16:53       ` sh -x -i -v with continuous integration, was " Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-14 17:06         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-16 15:28           ` Jeff King
2015-05-16 19:07             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-18 18:45               ` Jeff King
2015-05-18 20:41                 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-18 20:50                   ` Jeff King
2015-05-18 20:58                     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-16 12:33         ` Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:52 ` [PATCH 2/4] pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:52 ` [PATCH 3/4] Documentation/config.txt: clarify that pull.ff overrides merge.ff Paul Tan
2015-05-13  9:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string Paul Tan
2015-05-14 12:59 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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