What if we added the ability to do something like this: [remote "origin"] url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master mergeoptions = --ff-only This would be an analog to branch.<name>.mergeoptions, but it would apply to the source of the pull request, instead of the destination. That way, people who do a "git pull" from Linus's tree would get the protection of --ff-only, while pulls from submaintainer trees would automatically get a merge commit, which is what we want. It doesn't handle the case of a submaintainer pulling from a maintainer in a back-merge scenario, but that should be a pretty rare case, so maybe that's OK. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html