On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:09:16AM +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > I needed to slightly modify it > > git config --global alias.force-commit \ > '! git update-ref HEAD $(echo MARK | git commit-tree $(git cat-file > commit HEAD | grep ^tree | cut -b 6-) -p HEAD)' How about "git commit-tree HEAD^{tree} -p HEAD"? But I think making a "fake" commit to force non-fast-forward is the wrong thing. You really want to make your "extra" commit be the merge that wouldn't have happened (which unfortunately is not as simple as just creating a commit by hand, since you have to actually _do_ the merge to get the tree). -Peff - 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