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| author | Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com> | 2009-10-29 23:08:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-10-30 16:02:26 -0700 |
| commit | 134748353b2a71a34f899c9b1326ccf7ae082412 (patch) | |
| tree | aecf089b81630334a9306a734af1c126195e56f2 /Documentation | |
| parent | cd0f8e6d63d3e2744d7d3b2329238be7d064a8ea (diff) | |
| download | git-134748353b2a71a34f899c9b1326ccf7ae082412.tar.gz | |
Teach 'git merge' and 'git pull' the option --ff-only
For convenience in scripts and aliases, add the option
--ff-only to only allow fast-forwards (and up-to-date,
despite the name).
Disallow combining --ff-only and --no-ff, since they
flatly contradict each other.
Allow all other options to be combined with --ff-only
(i.e. do not add any code to handle them specially),
including the following options:
* --strategy (one or more): As long as the chosen merge
strategy results in up-to-date or fast-forward, the
command will succeed.
* --squash: I cannot imagine why anyone would want to
squash commits only if fast-forward is possible, but I
also see no reason why it should not be allowed.
* --message: The message will always be ignored, but I see
no need to explicitly disallow providing a redundant message.
Acknowledgements: I did look at Yuval Kogman's earlier
patch (107768 in gmane), mainly as shortcut to find my
way in the code, but I did not copy anything directly.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-options.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt index adadf8e4bf..27a9a8489c 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt @@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ a fast-forward, only update the branch pointer. This is the default behavior of git-merge. +--ff-only:: + Refuse to merge and exit with a non-zero status unless the + current `HEAD` is already up-to-date or the merge can be + resolved as a fast-forward. + -s <strategy>:: --strategy=<strategy>:: Use the given merge strategy; can be supplied more than |