specifying "fast-forward" only in git-pull

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Hi, I'm looking through the documentation on git-pull and
I see that I can specify a particular (sequence of) merge
strategies, but I can't see a way to say "only do a fast
forward, stopping if a fast forward doesn't apply".
(Fast-forward doesn't appear to be a named strategy,
which is why I can't use it with -s). Is there a way to
do this?

Rationale: I have a repository on several machines that
are synchronised via usb-stick. 99.9% of the time a fast
forward is all that is needed, and for scripting the
synchronisation I'd like to restrict it so that only
fast-forwards can happen automatically and everything
else I have to do by invoking git myself. (Somehow I managed to get
a merge that gave a weird result without me actually
noticing for a couple of days, which combined with
my chronological version scripts seemed to put new
trees onto an unnamed branch. I've got the repo sorted
out now, but I want to avoid the same issue in future.)

Many thanks for any help.
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