Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Right now I do not have time to dig mailing list archive around > mid March 2006, and I do not recall the requestor's original > rationale, but I have a vague recollection that we added this > "no fast-forward check" specifically in response to a user > request. I do not think of a valid reason not to apply your patch. We wanted to avoid the trivial-merge codepath, but that is not a valid reason to record a fast forward situation as a merge of any kind. - 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