On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 5:39 PM Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:16 PM Felipe Contreras > <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > We want --ff-only to make sense only when no --merge or --rebase option > > is specified. > > A lot of git commands have opposite options, and git allows them both > to be specified with the last one winning. Thus, much like > git log --patch --no-patch > mean show logs without patches and > git log --no-patch --patch > means show logs with patches, I would similarly expect the following > two commands to have opposite behavior: > git pull --merge --no-ff > git pull --no-ff --merge Good point. Although I presume you meant --ff-only. Taking that into consideration it may be possible to make --ff-only work straightforwardly. Further changes to the code are needed though. In the meantime I'm sending a quick patch on top of this series. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras