"Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > - if (!can_ff) { > - if (opt_ff) { > - if (!strcmp(opt_ff, "--ff-only")) > - die_ff_impossible(); > - } else { > - if (rebase_unspecified && opt_verbosity >= 0) > - show_advice_pull_non_ff(); > - } > + /* ff-only takes precedence over rebase */ > + if (opt_ff && !strcmp(opt_ff, "--ff-only")) { > + if (!can_ff) > + die_ff_impossible(); > + opt_rebase = REBASE_FALSE; > } > + /* If no action specified and we can't fast forward, then warn. */ > + if (!opt_ff && rebase_unspecified && !can_ff) > + show_advice_pull_non_ff(); This part makes sense, but ... > @@ -1069,13 +1069,7 @@ int cmd_pull(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > submodule_touches_in_range(the_repository, &upstream, &curr_head)) > die(_("cannot rebase with locally recorded submodule modifications")); > > - if (can_ff) { > - /* we can fast-forward this without invoking rebase */ > - opt_ff = "--ff-only"; > - ret = run_merge(); > - } else { > - ret = run_rebase(&newbase, &upstream); > - } > + ret = run_rebase(&newbase, &upstream); ... as I already pointed out, this does not seem to belong to the change. What makes this hunk necessary? We used to use run_merge() to fast-forward, now we let run_rebase() to first "checkout" their tip, which ends up to be a fast-forward in the "can_ff" situation. As a side effect, opt_ff gets contaminated with the current code, but that would not affect what happens after this part (i.e. call to rebase_submodules()).